Protecting women's and girls' rights

Around the world, and particularly in developing countries, women and girls are disadvantaged, excluded, discriminated against, and in many cases, denied their rights. In all our work around the world, ActionAid aims to protect women’s and girls’ human rights and to challenge the unequal power relationship between the sexes.

In this section

Disappearing daughters
The preference for sons over daughters in India has led to the number of girls under six hitting an all-time low.

Women Rock!
Pass this virtual gift on to women who rock and help us put women's rights at the centre of the fight against poverty.

HIV and AIDS
Sixty per cent of those with HIV in Africa are women - in some countries young women are six times more likely to be infected.

Women workers
The global economy depends upon millions of women workers, who all too often suffer poor conditions and poverty wages.

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