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Building resilient communities

ActionAid Building resilient communitiesMonday, February 9, 2009This brief report looks at how ActionAid helped communities affected by Cyclone Nargis (May 2008) to build their resilience to future...

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Drought in Afghanistan - another forgotten emergency?

Afghan women wait their turn to receive food rationsPhoto: Reuters/Ahmad Masood, courtesy Trust.org - AlertNet Afghan women wait their turn to receive food rations Nearly 3 million people have been...

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A daughter lost to the floods

Lying on the wooden bed with serum injection, 31 year-old Sein Keo is seriously ill after her young daughter died in the severe ongoing flood affecting Cambodia. The day the floods came, she told me,...

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People's Action to End Poverty

It’s high time to tell the story of ActionAid’s new international strategy ‘People’s Action to End Poverty’ which will run from 2013-2017 and which sets out to deepen our work on supporting peoples’...

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Saving lives, protecting rights - an introduction to ActionAid's work in...

ActionAid Saving lives, protecting rightsMonday, December 31, 2012This leaflet gives an introduction to ActionAid's work in emergencies and conflict.  It details some of our key successes over recent...

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Women's Rights in Emergencies

ActionAid Women's Rights in EmergenciesMonday, July 6, 2009It is widely acknowledged that emergencies have a differential impact upon women, men, girls and boys. The social, cultural, political,...

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The Bangladesh factory collapse - no accident

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Bawana Fire - A month later

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Meet Gazal

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Meet Leena

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Why we can't stay silent on the causes of vulnerability

Once again, a part of the world teeters on the brink of a catastrophe that sees the poorest and most vulnerable – mainly women and children – hardest hit.The food crisis and drought in East Africa is a...

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