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Every day, nine-year-old Angeena is woken at 4.30am by the sound of traffic before scouring the streets for car parts and recyclable rubbish.
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As Burundi struggles to maintain a fragile peace after years of civil war, ActionAid investigates the urgent need for peace building work, and visits a very special project showing just how it can be done.
Pakistani fisherman are being pushed into poverty due to over fishing by trawlers. This ActionAid report warns of the dangers to other fishing communities in developing countries if moves to open up markets go ahead.
Free trade policies have failed to provide the expected benefits to workers in the indian textile and leather industries. Families have faced malnutrition, starvation and even suicide as a result and many more are threatened by current WTO proposals.
Over the past ten years, the trafficking of women and children throughout Asia has grown exponentially. The Vietnamese government estimates that at least 22,000 women and children were illegally sent to China during the 1990s.
ActionAid is running a campaign calling for a change in corporate responsibility laws. Without such change, companies remain unaccountable for actions that can have ramifications the world over - and it is the poor and powerless who suffer most.
As China embraces global free trade, large cities such as Beijing are attracting huge numbers of rural workers hoping to share the country’s new found wealth. But the result is a growing divide between rich and poor.
For women in the low caste badi community, the system has meant an inescapable destiny: prostitution. But, thanks to one woman, who herself broke free from such a life, there is now hope for hundreds of others.
Emotional healing is proving to be as important as material relief for survivors of the tsunami. ActionAid is facilitating a community-based psycho-social intervention programme as a key part of its response.
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Many of these articles feature in the ActionAid supporter magazine 'Common Cause'.
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