Reacting to the just-ended Santa Marta conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels, Teresa Anderson, Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid International, said: “So many governments ...
As the high-level summit on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels starts in Santa Marta, Colombia today, ActionAid welcomes the call from an emerging coalition of Global South countries for a new legal ...
Dhaka, Bangladesh: New research by humanitarian organisation ActionAid has revealed the continuing challenges being endured by survivors of the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Dhaka on the 24 April ...
Political failure to limit global warming to below 2°C, as per the Paris agreement goal, is already driving 18 million climate migrants from their homes in 2020. New analysis, released today, ...
There are also other supporting documents available at the foot of the page. The report is based on extensive and ambitious new research: on IMF programmes and policy advice affecting public services ...
The world faces a series of inter-connecting crises. Responding to them will demand a complete disruption of business as usual. In the light of Covid, the growing debt crisis, rising inequality, ...
This updated version has been adapted, at the midpoint of the SDGs, against a backdrop of a world that has significantly changed since the first edition. It also sets out a bolder vision for financing ...
ActionAid’s report ‘Fifty Years of Failure: the IMF, Debt and Austerity in Africa’ is based on new research and powerful personal testimonies from across 10 African countries. It is timed to coincide ...
Haiti’s hunger crisis has reached alarming levels, with almost all families (99%) surveyed by ActionAid regularly skipping meals and 95% reporting that they’ve gone to bed hungry in the past month.
New research: 80% of garment workers in Bangladesh have experienced or witnessed sexual violence and harassment at work, with 90% saying their job is negatively impacting their health. Governments, ...
Barely any climate finance is going to support workers and communities to undertake just transitions. It is time for climate policy makers to make sure that people’s priorities are front and centre of ...
Commenting on the outcome of the election, ActionAid USA’s Executive Director, Niranjali Amerasinghe, said: “As the climate crisis escalates, communities on the front lines will feel that the outcome ...