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People before Profit: why urgent action is needed to hold businesses accountable for respecting human rights

As the role and size of the private sector in Ethiopia continues to grow, human rights abuses resulting from business activities are on the increase, including in the garment and textile industry. The

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The Vicious Cycle

The countries that are most vulnerable to the climate crisis are also facing a debt crisis – and the need to service external debt in foreign currency has become a major accelerator of the climate

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Standing up for our Rights: Feminist Insights from the Ukraine Response

The response to Russia’s military assault to Ukraine is yet another example of how the international system fails to acknowledge and promote the incredible work of civil society organisations like

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Ensuring a gender-responsive and effective Corporate Due Diligence Legislation in 10 steps

Pollution, land grabbing, the exploitation of workers, violence against human rights defenders… all have different and disproportionate effects on women. ActionAid’s extensive work with communities

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The Long Shadow of the Climate Crisis

In 2022 climate disasters have taken on a new scale and horror. Four seasons without rainfall have left a “biblical” drought and unprecedented hunger across Eastern Africa. Devastating floods in

Pathway to a Feminist Corporate Accountability Framework

Women around the world continue to experience business-related human rights abuses and violations differently and disproportionately: from significant barriers to access justice and discrimination in

The Care Contradiction: The IMF, Gender and Austerity

This report exposes the devastating impact public sector cuts are having on women in low income countries, who face a triple threat of losing access to services, having fewer opportunities to access

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ActionAid International 2021 Annual Report

This is a review of our work in 2021

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Education versus Austerity

Building on our major report The Public Versus Austerity (see below), Education Versus Austerity (also below) provides a synthesis of the key finds as applied to education. The briefing challenges the

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Gender Responsive Disability-Inclusive Education Budgeting

Gender Responsive and Disability Inclusive Education Budgeting