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Lives in Peril: Gaza's Pregnant, Nursing Mothers, and Children Face Imminent Danger Amid Desperate Water Shortage

Lives in Peril: Gaza's Pregnant, Nursing Mothers, and Children Face Imminent Danger Amid Desperate Water Shortage

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ActionAid's Letter to the EU: Gaza Crisis

ActionAid's Letter to the EU: Gaza Crisis

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Evacuation orders for 22 hospitals across Gaza “a breach of international law,” ActionAid warns

Evacuation orders for 22 hospitals across Gaza “a breach of international law,” ActionAid warns

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ActionAid is horrified by the unprecedented order to expel 1.1 million Palestinians from Northern Gaza

As reports come in of an order shared with the United Nations for Palestinians, humanitarian staff, and medical personnel to move from their homes and communities within the next 24 hours, ActionAid

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ActionAid partner Al-Awda hospital in Gaza given orders to urgently evacuate

ActionAid partner Al-Awda hospital in Gaza given orders to urgently evacuate

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No real action from IMF and World Bank. It’s business as usual – which means more debt and austerity - say ActionAid activists at annual meetings

No real action from IMF and World Bank. It’s business as usual – which means more debt and austerity - say ActionAid activists at annual meetings

There seems to be no real action on reforms by the

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Civilians are not pawns in war games and must be protected

Civilians are not pawns in war games and must be protected, ActionAid says, as staff member loses their home in Gaza bombing

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ActionAid Country Directors in Africa call for an end to debt distress

The IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings are taking place in Africa for the first time in 50 years. The last such meeting was held in Kenya in 1973, coincidentally the year of the military coup against

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Opening of safe humanitarian corridors and de-escalation of hostilities, crucial to alleviate suffering of millions in Gaza, says ActionAid

As the escalation of hostilities continues unabated in Gaza, ActionAid is concerned at the intensified humanitarian situation, where over two million people are facing a humanitarian crisis. The siege

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People living in fear as humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza, says ActionAid

With Gaza now completely cut off from food, electricity, water and fuel, ActionAid is alarmed at the rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis which is affecting the lives of over two million people.