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Palestine: Access to a Covid-19 vaccine is a human right no one should be denied

Free COVID-19 vaccines message for Occupied Palestine with a raised fist holding a vaccine vial on a green background.

By Riham Jafari, Communications and Advocacy Coordinator at ActionAid Palestine Vaccine Inequality One year on from the World Health Organisation declaring Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, Israel has the most successful vaccination programme in the world, with 50% of the population inoculated, including those residing in illegal settlements in the West Bank. […]

Jill & Gill – Why Women’s Rights

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ActionAid Ireland is an international organisation fighting for women’s rights, social justice and an end to poverty. Award-winning creative duo Jill & Gill answer questions for our blog series Why Women’s Rights. Thanks to print-maker Gillian Henderson and illustrator Jill Deering (pictured) for contributing. Why do women’s rights matter to you? As female entrepreneurs, we […]

Aimee Connolly – Why Women’s Rights

Smiling woman with long blonde hair in a pink blazer, set against a pink background.

ActionAid Ireland is an international aid charity fighting for women’s rights, social justice and an end to poverty. The second guest blog in our “Why Women’s Rights” series is by Make-up Artist and Entrepreneur Aimee Connolly. Why do women’s rights matter to you?  As a woman living in the 21st century, I believe that it is […]

Louise O’Neill – Why Women’s Rights?

Woman with earrings poses against a tree in a garden wearing a patterned shirt.

ActionAid Ireland is an international aid charity fighting for women’s rights, social justice and an end to poverty. Over the coming weeks, we will publish a regular guest blog by influential women in Ireland, on the topic “Why Women’s Rights?” First up is award-winning Irish Author, Louise O’Neill. Why do women’s rights matter to you?  Women’s […]

Applying behavioural science to reduce gender-based violence within international development

Woman smiling in vibrant clothing, standing outdoors near a traditional mud house.

Dr. Paul Chadwick and Triona Pender describe an academic-NGO partnership to apply behavioural science frameworks to reducing gender-based violence in Kenya, Nepal and Ethiopia Violence against women and girls is a global problem with one in three women experiencing violence relating to their gender during their lifetime (WHO, 2013). Women in low- and middle-income countries […]

Stuck in limbo: The Rohingya Refugee Crisis three years on

Group of women in colorful hijabs and masks standing in an outdoor construction area under a cloudy sky.

By Faria Rashid, advocacy coordinator at ActionAid Bangladesh, and Etienne Berges, policy and advocacy adviser at ActionAid Myanmar. Heavy monsoon rains are pounding the Rohingya refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar, flooding the crowded settlement and destroying makeshift homes. It is yet another hardship testing the resilience of communities as they battle the COVID-19 crisis and three years stuck in limbo. In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of  Rohingya  refugees […]