There was a lot of attention on the 5th BRICS summit, from 26-27 March 2013, hosted this time bySouth Africa inDurban. For one, it was the first summit in the African continent of the five (Brazil,...
After the recent incident in Delhi where a 23 year old student was brutally gang raped, India witnessed one of it's largest mass mobilisations of recent times. The nationwide protests also saw the...
Delhi saw its own version of the Arab Spring on the coldest days of winter, recently and we are sure it is not over yet. Many of us are a bit bewildered by the changing avatar of popular...
As a foreigner, the urban poverty of India is noticeable on many of Delhi’s vibrant main streets, and even more on the quieter side streets where street vendors sell food, drink and all manner of...
Activists and researchers working on the issue of child rights from leading organizations working in the field of education, child protection, health and nutrition met at ActionAid India’s office in New Delhi yesterday on the 1st of August to discuss the new draft National Policy on Children, 2012 prepared by Ministry of Women & Child Development.
"Bio fuel is this marvellous idea that we should make food not in order to eat it but to burn it" - Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved*“We don’t drive cars or tractors. Then why should we...
ActionAid India’s Senior Manager, Programmes, Dipali Sharma was invited for a panel discussion on the growing problem of mass migration and its long-term effects by NDTV24X7 on March 1st 2012.
We want a world without poverty, so we work with local people to fight hunger and poverty, seek justice for the dis-empowered and education for all children.
We are rooted with communities and social formations and aspire to learn from people’s actions and build on alternatives emanating from people’s own experiences.
