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Climate finance delivery plan ‘bare minimum’ needed to build trust in COP26
ActionAid responds to the launch of the UK COP Presidency’s plans to ensure countries deliver on their pledge, made in 2009, to provide $100billion a year in climate finance from 2020 to 2025.
ActionAid launches citizens’ campaign for a ban on fossil fuel advertising in Europe
ActionAid is joining more than twenty organisations in the first ever Europe-wide campaign calling for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships in the European Union.
IMF imposed austerity slashes three million frontline workers from world’s most fragile health systems
New research by ActionAid, Public Services International and Education International warns that the IMF’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermines progress on health and education.
Leaked Pandora Papers expose urgent need to stamp out tax avoidance by wealthy and political elite
As the Pandora Papers reveal yet again the extensive use of tax havens and tax secrecy by the economic and political elite, ActionAid International calls on governments to step up their efforts to
Pharmaceutical companies reaping immoral profits from Covid vaccines yet paying low tax rates
Moderna, BioNTech and Pfizer cashing in thanks to taxpayer investments, monopolies, and low taxes while leaving millions unprotected.
People’s Hearing to highlight outrageous injustices faced by Palestinians
As members of the UN Human Rights Council meet in Geneva on 14 September, ActionAid and Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq are hosting a virtual people’s hearing to highlight Israel’s
ActionAid joins calls for COP26 to be postponed as vaccine inequality sidelines voices from the Global South
As a member of Climate Action Network (CAN) International, ActionAid has joined calls from across civil society and the Global South for the UN Climate Summit (COP26) in Glasgow to be postponed.
Aid workers must be allowed to reach Afghanistan’s most vulnerable
As a new government is expected to be announced in Afghanistan, ActionAid is calling for all humanitarian workers to have unrestricted access to reach the most vulnerable families in need.
Families in urgent need of food, water and shelter as thousands flee to Afghanistan’s cities
Away from the chaotic and terrifying scenes at Kabul airport, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding on the streets of Afghanistan’s cities.
Earthquake survivors left with nowhere to shelter as storm Grace hits Haiti
As tropical storm Grace brings flooding and the threat of mudslides to Haiti, many earthquake survivors still have nowhere to shelter from the storm.
