Refugee and displacement crises
Find out about refugee crises and displacement crises around the world. How many displaced people and refugees are there around the world - and how to help.
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Emergencies
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Rasal and her mum arrive in Moria camp in Lesvos, Greece. Photo: Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid
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Woman leader Luijah directs an ActionAid food distribution project for people suffering from drought in Kenya. Photo: Alice Oldenburg/ActionAid
Protecting women’s rights in emergencies
We call for women’s leadership to be recognised and urge renewed commitment to promote a humanitarian architecture that advances and protects women’s rights.
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Siba, 19, from Syria, receives a sanitary kit in the women's safe space in Kara Tepe. . Photo: Anna Pantelia/ActionAid
Periods in humanitarian disasters
Find out about period poverty during humanitarian crises, and how ActionAid refugees to access menstrual products and end period poverty.
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Malati, a women’s rights coordinator for ActionAid Nepal, addresses local women in Panga after the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. Photo: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid
Earthquakes in Nepal 2015
Find out about the 2015 Nepal earthquake, its magnitude, damage, death toll, and how ActionAid helped to save lives.
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A health worker washes their hands in chlorine water in Gollu, Sierra Leone. Photo: Kate Holt/ActionAid
Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa 2014-16
Learn about the Ebola virus, how ActionAid responded to the Ebola virus crisis in West Africa 2014-16, and how we helped during the 2019 Ebola outbreak in DRC.
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Women leaders from an ActionAid partner organisation in Haiti distribute emergency kits after Hurricane Matthew. Photo: ActionAid
Hurricane Matthew in Haiti 2016
Hurricane Matthew in Haiti 2016: how was the country affected and how did ActionAid respond?
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