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A UK biofuel company took land from Halima Ali and her community. They promised fair compensation and badly-needed social services in exchange- but none of these promises have been kept
ActionAid Australia’s campaign The Other You connects people like you, who want to fight injustice, with ActionAid Activists overseas who are doing just that.
“Oh, I’m not scared” instantly quipped Salima on asking whether fears of past rigid regime still haunts her. “I will not allow them to come back and trouble us again”, she continued, “I have sensed...
In a society where women are not treated equally, life for a girl child becomes discriminatory, unjust and considerably miserable. Such is the case in most parts of Pakistan where girls are inhumanly...
Following the resignation of World Bank president Robert Zoellick, a coalition of over 50 NGOs have signed an open letter to the World Bank and its member country representatives demanding that...
No matter where you go to check the news, you’re probably used by now to hearing all about the financial crisis. Governments across Europe are slashing their budgets and we’re told the age of...
My name is David Habba and I Occupied Nigeria!As a young person growing up in Nigeria, I have had to endure pain and hardship. I have gone to bed hungry, not because I am fasting but simply because I...
The rivers are flowing and the grass is finally green in Kongelei, the pastoralist community in North Western Kenya. Here, I mostly meet women and children, as many men have left the villages in...
20 year old Joassaint Nelson is from Philippeaux, an area in which thousands of earthquake survivors have been living in tents since the earthquake of January 2010.
In one of the biggest pushes to highlight the rights and struggles of the homeless people in Chennai, one India’s rapidly growing metros and the capital of Tamil Nadu...
Sellina Narumbe is a pastoralist from Isiolo, northern Kenya. Reliant on her livestock for her survival, she has been hit hard by the ongoing drought sweeping parts of the country. Lack...
"If ActionAid had not thought of this new and easy seed-loan process, I don't think I could have produced enough food for my family," says Afsa Begum, 27, who lives with her husband and three...
Umerkot is one of the worst flood affected districts of Sindh, Pakistan. It is contrary to environmental characteristics of the area that it floods with rainwater. People have constructed their...
