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Arsheen Qasim

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  • Children in Pursat, Cambodia travel to school on boats during the wet season. Photo: Cindy Liu/ActionAid

    World Water Day: everything you should know

    Posted 17 Mar 2021

    On World Water Day, we explore the unavoidable link between water and climate change. Find out when it is and what it means to mark this important day. 

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  • 8-year-old Krijana learnt all about the coronavirus through radio programmes in Nepal. Photo: Umesh Nepali/ActionAid

    10 ways to protect education for the Covid-19 generation

    Posted 22 Jan 2021

    Education must not be a casualty of the Covid-19 crisis.

    Millions of children around the world are being affected by the coronavirus crisis and we need to make sure we don't roll back on children's rights and years of progress in advancing girls' rights.

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  • Covid-19 can be a catastrophe in densely-packed places around the world.

    Covid-19 can be a catastrophe in densely-packed places around the world. Photo: ActionAid

    Why Covid is a catastrophe in densely-packed places

    Posted 15 May 2020

    Imagine trying to stay six feet apart in a refugee camp or a slum. Find out how coronavirus crisis is a catastrophe in the most densely populated places around the world.

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  • ActionAid volunteer facilitator, Hawa conducts an Ebola awareness session in Sierra Leone in 2014. Photo: ActionAid

    Covid: How misinformation can be fatal

    Posted 1 May 2020

    Myths about the spread of global health phenomena are not new. They are a common occurrence and have existed for a long time, but in the age of social media, fake news, and misinformation it is now more important than ever to separate fiction from fact.

    Find out how the coronavirus pandemic has generated its own information crisis.

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  • Women are at the forefront of trying to alleviate hunger during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: ActionAid India

    Coronavirus: Millions facing hunger around the world

    Posted 22 Apr 2020

    Vulnerable people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are facing a double emergency from hunger and Covid-19, as the pandemic is affecting food supply and shutting down livelihoods of millions who are already subsiding on very little. Find out how coronavirus is pushing people to hunger.

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  • Residents of a village in Sierra Leona, attend a hand-washing session during the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Photo: Tommy Trenchard/ActionAid

    How will Covid affect women and girls in poverty?

    Posted 24 Mar 2020

    The World Health Organisation declared the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic in early March 2020. This new coronavirus and Covid-19 disease affects all of us around the world, but women and girls living in poverty will be even more severely affected. Find out what consequences this outbreak could have for women and girls worldwide.

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