News from 2011

ActionAid research has revealed that up to 86% of girls had reported some form of violence against them in the past 12 months, that parents are complicit in under-age marriage and that girls are all too frequently blamed for the violence they experience.

ActionAid has launched the world’s first ever emergency music network, backed by music stars including The Wombats, Everything Everything, Chapel Club, Cancer Bats and Radio 1’s Huw Stephens.

Important progress has been made in the battle against tax haven secrecy

Financial crisis: G20 must end tax haven secrecy, ActionAid says.

ActionAid ambassador Emma Thompson meets Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi against a backdrop of increasing change in the country.

Emma Thompson discusses her visit to Burma (Myanmar) with ActionAid, and tells us how the country is changing, the difference ActionAid supporters are making, and what it was like to meet Aung San Suu Kyi

Enrico Eminae, the man leading ActionAid’s response to the crisis, travelled to five locations in the UK to thank supporters in person for their generosity

Celebrities gear up for a night of fine wine and laughs at ActionAid's showcase fundraiser

The earthquake in Haiti killed 250,000 people and shattered millions of lives. With the support of friends and families – and ActionAid child sponsors – the people of Haiti are rebuilding their lives.

A national competition to find the Young Ambassadors 2012 for the Global Campaign for Education is now open to schoolchildren in the UK. The winners will have the opportunity to visit Africa in February 2012 with the charity ActionAid and the Global Campaign for Education.

SABMiller has recently launched a hostile takeover bid for the Foster's group, which could lead to the Australian authorities losing out to tax dodging in a similar way to African nations.

Bollocks to Poverty, the youth arm of ActionAid, is staging a series of bespoke, unpublicised performances by big names in their cool and cosy tent to celebrate their 10th amazing year of standing up for the rights of people all over the world at Reading festival.

Donations from the UK public to the DEC appeal to help people suffering from severe food shortages in East Africa have topped a milestone £20 million.

DEC agencies prepare to scale up work in Somalia. Member agencies of the Disasters Emergency Committee are preparing to scale up the work they are already doing in Somalia, as thousands continue to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia to escape drought and conflict. Nine of the 14 agencies that make up the DEC are working in the Somalia directly or through partners. The existing humanitarian crisis in the country caused by the conflict has been compounded by the severe drought affecting the region.

Businesses face the risk of seriously damaging their reputation if they do not make tax planning part of their corporate responsibility programmes, says anti-poverty charity ActionAid.

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has announced details of the radio and television broadcasts to run today (Friday) to help more than 10 million people in the grip of the worst drought seen in parts of East Africa in over half a century.

In the face of the worst drought in East Africa since the 1950’s, the agencies of the Disasters Emergency Committee said today (Wednesday, 6.7.11) they face a funding shortfall of more than £85m for their emergency response in the region.

The drought has withered crops, killed cattle and led to massive increases in food prices. More than 10 million people are now affected over large areas of Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and the rest of the region.

Our sparkling wine with a heart, Millione, has now raised enough money to start work on two primary schools in Sierra Leone.

18-year-old Eshwaramma Nrayanappa – a quadriplegic former sponsored child – has won a Diana Award in recognition of her contribution to the rights of children living with disability in India.

Sir Paul McCartney took time out before hitting the stage in rocking Rio de Janeiro last week to meet with two young music students from the Mare community.

Workers at Asda's 'showcase' clothing factories, which are supposed to offer improved pay and conditions, report being slapped, having their hair pulled and regularly working 60 hour weeks.

Life, Above All is the extraordinary story of one girl's struggle with HIV / AIDS stigmatisation in South Africa.

Liam Fox has asked David Cameron to break his aid promise. This is ActionAid's response.

Plans for a biofuels plantation in Kenya will violate the rights of an indigenous community of over 20,000 people.

As the long sunny evenings draw out it’s the perfect time to add Millione, a lightly sparkling rose frizzante, to any summer barbeque or picnic. Millione is the wine that not only tastes and looks good, but does good too.

The expanding humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting has created 120,000 refugees in Liberia, nearly half of whom are receiving little or no aid.

African biofuels destined for Europe will result in up to six times the carbon emissions of fossil fuels, according to a new study commissioned by ActionAid, the RSPB and Nature Kenya.

Today, ActionAid celebrated the centenary of International Women's Day by inviting four extraordinary female politicians from Afghanistan to share their achievements and the daily challenges they face as Afghan MPs.

Nearly half of all women (47 per cent) in the UK do not believe they are treated equally to men

Emma Thompson visited Liberia to discover how a country with Africa's first female elected head of state could also have such high levels of violence against women.

An investigation by ActionAid reveals that half of all FTSE 100 companies do not appear to fulfil their legal obligations to list all their subsidiaries.

ActionAid’s sponsored children and their families in southern Pakistan are reported safe after the region was hit by an earthquake last night.

"Until the government frees up the land needed, we are forced to spend donations on replacing tents and other piecemeal measures"