Here in ActionAid Ireland, we pride ourselves on one thing. We are led by the women we work with. Whether that is with women farmers in rural Kenya, women’s organisations in southern Nepal or women in international protection here in Ireland, who often experience poverty and marginalisation.  The women we work with have been experiencing.....

ActionAid Kenya, funded by Irish Aid and in partnership with ActionAid Ireland, are supporting a powerful women’s network aimed at eradicating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and gender-based violence. ActionAid Ireland Head of Programmes, Grainne Kilcullen, writes about a recent visit to Kenya. The dusty road from Garissa town to Kamuthe village near the border with.....

Aid workers in Rafah are working against the odds to keep providing life-saving support to people in need, despite facing a level of danger that is unprecedented even within humanitarian emergencies, and experiencing the same inhumane living conditions as the rest of the population. Yet with virtually no aid having entered Gaza for days, their.....