ActionAid expresses grave concern over the recent military strikes carried out by the United States and Israel against targets across Iran, as well as Iran’s subsequent military retaliation.

2026 marks 25 years since the UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. We call on UNESCO, GEMR, and their many stakeholders to demonstrate global ...

Political failure to limit global warming to below 2°C, as per the Paris agreement goal, is already driving 18 million climate migrants from their homes in 2020. New analysis, released today, ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh: New research by humanitarian organisation ActionAid has revealed the continuing challenges being endured by survivors of the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Dhaka on the 24 April ...

Climate-wrecking fossil fuel and industrial agriculture sectors are squeezing climate-hit countries for over US$600 billion in public subsidies every year. ActionAid’s groundbreaking new report on the ...

This report exposes the devastating impact public sector cuts are having on women in low income countries, who face a triple threat of losing access to services, having fewer opportunities to access ...

Barely any climate finance is going to support workers and communities to undertake just transitions. It is time for climate policy makers to make sure that people’s priorities are front and centre of ...

ActionAid’s report ‘Fifty Years of Failure: the IMF, Debt and Austerity in Africa’ is based on new research and powerful personal testimonies from across 10 African countries. It is timed to coincide ...

Find out more about ActionAid’s groundbreaking new research into the financial flows fuelling industrial agriculture and fossil fuels – the two industries that are the largest contributors to climate ...

As millionaires and billionaires fly into Davos this week to discuss the state of the world, efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change are desperately underfunded. Long-term solutions to ensure ...

Women and girls in Gaza are resorting to unsafe ways of managing their periods amid a severe shortage of period products and catastrophic humanitarian conditions. ActionAid has heard that some ...

A new study by ActionAid reveals that deep cuts to public spending in education and health across six African countries have seen workers struggling to afford essentials like food and resulted in ...