News releases from 2026

“We don't have so much as a spoon”: Colombia earthquake devastates hundreds of homes in communities already facing decades of exclusion

14 August 2026

Women and community leaders across Chocó and Buenaventura are organising support and identifying urgent needs following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake, as ActionAid warns longstanding inequalities risk leaving Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in rural regions behind.  

Hospitals overwhelmed as Colombia earthquake casualties rise

11 August 2026

Hospitals in areas affected by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia on Monday morning are reported to be completely overwhelmed, as the number of casualties continues to rise.

UK banks must be held to account for climate impact

4 August 2026

Joanne O'Neill, co-director of advocacy and influencing at ActionAid UK, said: "As HSBC announces mammoth profits, it’s time that the government took meaningful action to hold UK banks to account for their climate and human rights impacts. 

‘Truly shameful’ that Gaza still faces crisis levels of hunger, says ActionAid

23 July 2026

Responding to the IPC’s new report on food security in Gaza, Jamil Sawalmeh, country director of ActionAid Palestine, said:

Don’t throw global south countries under the bus with fare cap policy

22 July 2026

Following the news that the Prime Minister intends to fund his bus fare cap policy by delivering international climate finance as loans, rather than grants, ActionAid UK is warning that improving people’s cost of living here in the UK does not need to be a zero sum game in which people in the Global South lose out

New Foreign Secretary must put gender equality at top of agenda

20 July 2026

ActionAid UK calls on the new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, to maintain the department’s commitment to women and girls’ rights and give it real weight by reversing devastating funding cuts

New Prime Minister must take urgent action to protect Palestinians

16 July 2026

We write as a coalition of UK humanitarian, development, human rights, environmental justice and faith-based agencies working in and on the Occupied Palestinian Territory to urge the incoming Prime Minister to take urgent action to protect Palestinians facing an existential threat of erasure, and ensure that the UK meets its legal and moral obligations.

Displaced families face "double tragedy" in Ebola crisis

24 June 2026

ActionAid urges next Prime Minister to show global leadership

22 June 2026

UK sanctions in response to settler violence do not go far enough

9 June 2026

It’s time for the UK government to impose a comprehensive ban on trade and investment with all illegal settlements, and a review and suspension of the UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement