ActionAid welcomes UK climate commitments, but calls for increased funding
17 September 2024
ActionAid welcomes Foreign Secretary's climate commitments but warns it cannot shy away from scale of climate funding.
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News releases from 2024
All the latest breaking news, press releases and comment from ActionAid UK's media team.
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New report highlights aid challenges in Gaza amid growing safety risks
10 September 2024
Humanitarian workers in Gaza have continued to face severe safety risks and huge challenges in delivering aid over the last two weeks as the Polio vaccination campaign gets underway, report NGOs in the latest humanitarian access snapshot.
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Gaza’s children desperate to return to school as new year starts
9 September 2024
“Going to school is not a luxury, it’s a fundamental right, and yet hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are being denied an education"
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UK should go further and halt all arms licenses to Israeli government
2 September 2024
It's time for the UK to apply maximum pressure on the Israeli government to secure a permanent ceasefire and the release of the hostages – and finally put an end to this nightmare, says ActionAid UK
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Women living in refugee camps describe terror of major Israeli military incursion
30 August 2024
Women living in refugee camps in West Bank describe being under siege as military incursion in the territory continues.
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ActionAid comments on humanitarian pause for polio vaccination campaign in Gaza
30 August 2024
ActionAid comments on humanitarian pause for polio vaccination campaign in Gaza.
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Emergency Bangladesh Floods Appeal launched
27 August 2024
ActionAid UK launches emergency Bangladesh Floods Appeal as over five million affected and disease threats escalate
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Floods force families in Bangladesh to flee homes
27 August 2024
Families in Bangladesh forced to flee homes as floods wreak havoc
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ActionAid concerned about unfolding humanitarian crisis in South Lebanon
25 August 2024
Concern over the unfolding humanitarian crisis in southern Lebanon
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Joint statement as Israel force thousands in Gaza to flee
22 August 2024
New Israeli orders have forced thousands in Deir al-Balah to flee yet again and disrupted Gaza’s last aid hub
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