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Woman in a niqab sits on a bed holding a baby, surrounded by household items, highlighting a domestic setting.
ActionAid Ireland say doctors in its partner hospital in Gaza reporting rise in miscarriages due to stress and lack of food  

ActionAid Ireland CEO, Karol Balfe, said staff at its partner hospital Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat – the only hospital in central Gaza currently providing maternity services including c-sections – said pregnant women are increasingly presenting at the hospital with heavy

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Together we are stronger: the background to our video 

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

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Three women smiling in colorful headscarves, outdoors in Kenya under a blue sky with green foliage in the background.
How Makka became a fearless campaigner to end FGM and gender-based violence in Kenya

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

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Humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza: worker handing bag to recipient beside emergency response sign.
ActionAid’s partner organisation in Rafah forced to halt services after staff displaced, as humanitarian operations reach breaking point

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

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ActionAid Ireland calls on the international community to act to prevent a full-scale invasion of Rafah and a bloodbath

ActionAid Ireland has called on Israel to abandon its catastrophic plan for a full-scale invasion of Rafah with reports of thousands of terrified citizens fleeing the southern Gazan city as airstrikes intensify and aid delivery is disrupted. ActionAid Ireland CEO,

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Will you take action to demand an end to arms sales to Israel? 

Today is Global Day of Action Against Arms Sales to Israel. Will you take action to call on the Irish government to use their position in the EU and relationship with the U.S. to end arms sales?  It is almost

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