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Earth Day: Celebrating women farmers’ resilience to climate change

Climate change is having a major impact on daily life in Bangladesh. For small farmers in particular the impacts of climate change are devastating on their livelihoods and daily life. But women farmers in Bangladesh are coming together to work

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New report from ActionAid and Oxfam: International community must prevent further actions by Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians

A new report highlights how six months of Israel’s devastating military assault on the Gaza Strip has precipitated a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and the forced displacement of nearly two million Palestinians within the besieged enclave. Read the report “Compelled to

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Directors of ActionAid in Ireland and the US on three questions Taoiseach Leo Varadkar must ask US President Joe Biden during their Washington meeting to mark St. Patrick’s Day

The scale of suffering and violence in Gaza is horrific. In just five months, 31,000 people, 70% women and children, have been brutally killed. Around 80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes. Children are now dying from starvation due

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Women have experienced the war on Gaza in deadly and brutal ways

The war on Gaza has been brutal and deadly. In just five months, an entire people has experienced unbelievable trauma and unprecedented levels of death. But the suffering endured by women in particular in this awful and illegal war has

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Learnings from our Women’s Rights Programme

We’re delighted to present our learnings from our Women’s Rights Programme 2017 to 2022. ActionAid Ireland’s Women’s Rights Programme, funded by Irish Aid, aims to increase the safety and security of women and girls and improve their economic wellbeing in

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New report reveals European banks provided US$327 billion of financing to fossil fuel and agribusiness activities in the Global South in the 7 years since the Paris Agreement

European banks have provided a staggering US$327 billion (€281 billion) of financing to fossil fuel and industrial agriculture activities in the Global South in the 7 years since the Paris Agreement was signed, a new report from ActionAid published at

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