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ActionAid UK survey

Edit Indian Express 31 May 2016
Nearly four out of five women (79 per cent) in India have experienced some form of harassment or violence in public, according to a latest survey by ActionAid UK ... While “welcoming” the draft “National Policy for Women 2016” released by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, ActionAid’s Rajasthan regional manager Narendra Sharma said that, ......

Actionaid Pumps K2.8 Million Towards ECD

Edit All Africa 31 May 2016
[Malawi News Agency] Ntchisi -Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs would be sustainable in the communities if ECD centres were financially self-reliant as they would be able to support themselves in all their requirements, ActionAid has observed ... ....

Addressing Unpaid Care Work: Giving A Second Chance To Girls Forced Into Marriages To Break ...

Edit Modern Ghana 30 May 2016
The Tizze community in the Jirapa/Lambussie district in the Upper West region is one of the areas ActionAid Ghana and UNICEF is implementing the End Child Marriage project ... In the Upper West Region alone, ActionAid Ghana’s Community-Based Anti-Violence Team (COMBAT) has rescued 126 girls from child marriages and sent them back to school ... ActionAid Ghana....

ActionAid Launches Program to Address Gender Inequality

Edit All Africa 30 May 2016
[Focus] The country director of ActionAid International, Josephine Uwamariya, has said that supporting women outcomes develops the community and the country respectively ... ....

One Year Later, Nigerians Debate Whether Buhari Has Brought Change

Edit Voa News 28 May 2016
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari won office over former President Goodluck Jonathan last year, in part, on promises to end the Boko Haram insurgency, which has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced at least 2 million in its seven-year war against the Nigerian state ...   Tunde Aremu, policy and campaigns manager for anti-poverty charity ActionAid, said the public’s interest in the corruption fight is waning ... ....

Let's Follow Celebrity Suit and Talk

Edit Huffington Post 27 May 2016
A new ActionAid poll this week tells us that a third of women in the UK are too embarrassed to talk about their periods.1 But isn't it about time we stopped feeling ashamed about something natural? ... ActionAid is not only working to bust taboos and embarrassment but we're also working to improve access to sanitary products and improve hygiene facilities for schoolgirls....

Child marriage. 126 girls rescued in 57 communities in the Upper East

Edit Graphic 27 May 2016
Ms Anzagira made this known in an interview with The Mirror when ActionAid Ghana outdoored the End Child Marriage Project ambassador in Accra ... According to the Country Director for ActionAid Ghana, Mr Sumaila Abdul-Rahman, 21 per cent of girls in Ghana are married before they are 18 but rates can be as high as 39 per cent in the Northern part of the country....

Third Of British Women Too Embarrassed To Talk About Periods

Edit Huffington Post 27 May 2016
One in three British women admit they are embarrassed about their periods, according to a new poll released by ActionAid ... Jessica Holland, a spokesperson from ActionAid, said it’s "deeply saddening" that in 2016 many women still feel too embarrassed to talk about periods ... ActionAid is helping girls to stay in school by improving access to ......

Small Scale Farmers Call On Colleagues to Join Cooperatives to Address Poverty

Edit All Africa 27 May 2016
[Focus] Female small scale farmers in Musanze district have testified that working in cooperatives has helped them to address the issue of poverty. These women are from Muko sector in Musanze district (Northern Province). The enterprising women made the remarks yesterday during a media trip and field visit to their district. The trip was organized by ActionAid International Rwanda ... ....

Land rights for women — on paper and in practice (Landesa)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
(Source. Landesa). This article originally appeared in Devex. By Colleen O'Holleran ... If this male relative dies, a woman's continued access to her land is anything but certain ... Scholastica Haule is the women and land rights advisor at ActionAid Tanzania, an NGO that works to further human rights and defeat poverty ... Civil society organizations like ActionAid Tanzania can help identify and address risks in land-based investments ... (noodl....

Spotlight: UN's first rule-setting negotiations for Paris Agreement conclude, leaving homework to countries

Edit Xinhua 27 May 2016
BONN, Germany, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations' first round of climate talks following a climate summit in Paris closed here on Thursday, leaving countries to continue their work at home to write a rule book for the Paris Agreement ... 30, ahead of the next climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco in November this year ... "We still have political differences," said Harjeet Singh, Global Lead on Climate Change for ActionAid. Editor. yan. ....

Envoy meets rape survivors at Gauravi

Edit The Times of India 26 May 2016
Bhopal. US Ambassador to India Richard Verma visited Gauravi - one-stop crisis centre (OSCC) in Bhopal here on Wednesday ... The top American diplomat in India met with five survivors of rape and domestic violence at Gauravi, based out of the government-run district hospital ... "It is a great motivation when people from other countries appreciate our model Gauravi model," said regional manager ActionAid and OSCC co-ordinator Sakina Sinha....

Climate Change: A Battle Of Interest Between Industrialized Rich Countries And Africa

Edit Modern Ghana 26 May 2016
Others are Friends of the Earth International; the International Trade Union Confederation; Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance, Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, Jubilee South (APMDD), 350.org ; Greenpeace; WWF; Oxfam; ActionAid; and the Philippines Movement on Climate; Africa’s Renewable Energy Initiative at COP 21, the AfDB’s ......
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