“By forcing countries to prioritise debt repayment over essential services such as health and education, or responding to the runaway climate crisis, the rich countries are pushing Africa to the brink."

New report by ActionAid calls for International Monetary Fund to be replaced by new UN convention on debt, highlighting that unpaid debts owed to Africa far exceed the external debts that African nations are forced to pay
  • Date: 10/02/2025
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

Ahead of major African Union summit, a new report from ActionAid warns that a shocking 75.3% of all lower-income countries are spending more on foreign debt than on health and education, as a result of deeply unjust and colonial global economic system. Forcing African countries to forego essential public services such as health, education, and climate.....

Al-Awda Hospital

Last functioning hospital in Northern Gaza overwhelmed with patients and bodies recovered from the streets as ceasefire continues, says ActionAid Ireland
  • Date: 23/01/2025
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

As the ceasefire in Gaza continues and thousands of people return to what is left of their homes, patients have once again started arriving at Al-Awda Hospital – last functioning hospital in northern Gaza – for treatment.   For more than three months, people in the north of Gaza have been trapped under intense siege, unable.....

occupied territories bill

As new government takes power, ActionAid Ireland says parties must fulfil their election commitments to the Occupied Territories Bill
  • Date: 21/01/2025
  • Author: ActionAid Ireland

ActionAid Ireland has called on the new Government parties to fulfil their election commitments to hold Israel to account and not bow to pressure to abandon or dilute the long-awaited Occupied Territories Bill. ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said today: “Tomorrow, Wednesday 22 January, the new Irish government will take power. All of the parties.....