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In April 2024, the European Union adopted an ambitious and important legislation: the Corporate Due Diligence Duty (CSDDD), ...
ActionAid’s colleagues and partners are reporting hellish conditions in Gaza as bombing intensifies and supplies run out. Hundreds of people have been killed and nearly 100,000 have been displaced in ...
Food prices are skyrocketing in Gaza, ActionAid’s staff and partners reported today, as the total ban on aid entering the territory continues into its eighth week, causing major shortages and ...
ActionAid is heartbroken and outraged by the latest attacks carried out by the Russian Federation against humanitarian organisations delivering life-saving aid to the most vulnerable people on the ...
European civil society organisations (CSOs) are currently facing an attack coming from certain Members of the European Parliament. Spearheaded by some MEPs from the European People’s Party (EPP) and ...
ActionAid has launched an emergency appeal following a devastating earthquake that struck central Myanmar, leaving over 1,000 people dead and thousands without homes and in urgent need of food, water ...
Haiti’s hunger crisis has reached alarming levels, with almost all families (99%) surveyed by ActionAid regularly skipping meals and 95% reporting that they’ve gone to bed hungry in the past month.
In response to the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ActionAid DRC’s Country Director, Yakubu Mohammed Saani, said: “ActionAid is extremely alarmed by the ...
Reacting to the final NCQG text at COP29, Teresa Anderson, the Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid International, said: “This text is not worth the paper it's written on. Almost nothing of ...
Commenting on the outcome of the election, ActionAid USA’s Executive Director, Niranjali Amerasinghe, said: “As the climate crisis escalates, communities on the front lines will feel that the outcome ...
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 ...