Floods in Pakistan
Pakistan has suffered its worst floods in 80 years, with close to 1,600 deaths and over 18 million people affected.
ActionAid is on the ground providing emergency relief items such as food, water and sanitation focusing on women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities.
News headlines
On Tuesday 14 September, ActionAid, together with the University of Sydney Human Rights and Democratisation initiative, will host a special seminar discussing the issue of violence against women in the context of armed conflict.
ActionAid Mozambique says increasing financing for small-scale farming can play a part in solving hunger in the country.
Australia will play host to a major UN conference focusing on global health and the Millennium Development Goals from 30 August, with opportunities for the public to get involved.
On Thursday 16 September, panellists from ActionAid, The Australian National University and AusAID will lead a debate on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals: "Countdown to 2015: How can we achieve the MDGs?"
ActionAid has joined with Plan International and Save the Children to urge Australians to help the victims of Pakistan's devastating floods.
ActionAid staff and supporters took to the streets of Sydney last Sunday (15 August) to highlight the global injustice of climate change and demand real action from government.
ActionAid will join with Greenpeace, Oxfam, World Vision and other organisations demanding stronger action on climate change in this Sunday's Walk Against Warming.
Heavy rains are hampering the rescue operation in Pakistan where ActionAid partners have been evacuating people caught up in the worst floods in 80 years.
ActionAid is responding to the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years with emergency food supplies, clean water, sanitation and shelter support.
ActionAid will join the University of Sydney and the Australian Education Union on 13 August to host a seminar on whether we are on track to reach the Millennium Development Goals on education.
Leaders of the G8 have broken their aid promises made at the 2005 Gleneagles summit at the height of the Make Poverty History movement.
ActionAid has teamed up with the 1Goal: Education for All campaign to offer two Australian high-school students the chance to travel to Africa to visit an aid project and share the experience with Australians nationally.
As people round the world rally behind football teams, ActionAid is putting the weight of its support behind the 1GOAL campaign, to focus the world’s attention on education as well as football.
Rescue workers in Guatemala, including ActionAid employees and partners, are working round the clock to evacuate vulnerable people, restore communications and reach cut-off areas hit by tropical storm Agatha.
ActionAid has condemned the use of violence and loss of life in the Gaza flotilla incident and has called for an independent investigation by the United Nations into the incident as soon as possible.
Current campaigns
Pakistan Floods: ActionAid Appeal
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