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IMF Annual Meetings: Austerity is not a solution, it’s a cycle of harm, says ActionAid

ActionAid has condemned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for continuing to push austerity and budget cuts at its Annual ...
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This ceasefire announcement: "Must be used as a springboard to end the Israeli genocide and unlawful occupation."

Jamil Sawalmeh, Country Director of ActionAid Palestine, comments on todays ceasefire announcement. We have the hopeful news ...
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The Human Cost of Public Cuts in Africa

The research from ActionAid International, The Human Cost of Public Sector Cuts in Africa, exposes how austerity measures over the past five years have devastated public health and education services ...
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Who Cares for the Future: finance gender responsive public services!

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 ...
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The industries fuelling the climate crisis are draining public funds in the Global South, new ActionAid report reveals

Climate-wrecking fossil fuel and industrial agriculture sectors are squeezing climate-hit countries for over US$600 billion in public subsidies every year. ActionAid’s groundbreaking new report on the ...
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An Extractive Affair

Malawi, the poorest country in the world, has lost out on US$43 million in revenue over the last six years, from a single company: the Australian mining company Paladin. This money has been lost ...
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'The political situation is concerning, but we're hopeful the transition will lead to positive change,’ says ActionAid Bangladesh

Reacting to the recent protests and developing political transition in Bangladesh, ActionAid said: ‘ActionAid stands in solidarity with the young people in Bangladesh who have courageously raised ...
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The Public Versus Austerity: Why public sector wage bill constraints must end

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, ...
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Fifty Years of Failure: The IMF, Debt and Austerity in Africa

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 ...
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The impact of Covid-19 on young women

New research from ActionAid reveals the social and economic impacts of the Coivd-19 pandemic on young women living in urban areas in India, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. In August 2020, ActionAid ...
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A third of people affected by Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh still ‘traumatised’ and struggling with physical and mental health a decade on, new research by ActionAid shows

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 ...