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Press release: ActionAid joins global climate strike

As world leaders head to New York for the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Climate Action Summit, the worldwide marches and actions will send a clear message that people of all ages and

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Fighting domestic violence in Ghana: How DoVVSU set-ups provide safe spaces for survivors

ActionAid Ghana (AAG) has been working in Ghana since 1990 promoting women’s empowerment. AAG's Country Strategy Paper (CSP VI), under the name, 'People's Power for Social Justice', places women's

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“They said it was a man’s job”

27 year old Vida Badu, knew exactly what she wanted to do when the training options came up under the European Union-funded, Sustainable Livelihoods and Transparent Local Authorities (SLATLA) Project

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SEX FOR GRADES: ACTIONAID GHANA JOINS CALL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS

ActionAid is a global justice federation working in over 45 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. Throughout the world, ActionAid works to strengthen the

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Communiqué: Smallholder women farmers call for agroecology and promotion of their rights

We are members of the National Women Farmers’ Movement, an advocacy group of smallholder women farmers from nine regions in Ghana: the Upper East, Upper West, Northern, North East, Bono, Ahafo, Bono

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Soyabean khebab training empowers Delali

Delali Kpomida lives in the Hobor community in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra region of Ghana.

A member of ActionAid's group, the Mawupase Women’s Group in the community, the 30-year

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Yagzure Tibonkena Women’s Group take matters into their own hands

Yagzure is a small rural community in the Talensi District of the Upper East region of Ghana. It is part of the 42 communities beneficiating from ActionAid Ghana’s, Promoting Opportunities for Women’s

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“I can’t remember the last time I heard a woman cry because her husband or a man has beaten her.”

The Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Rights Project (POWER) project has not only been empowering smallholder women farmers but also combatting Violence Against Women and Girls

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World leaders land at COP25 as Africa faces climate and food crises

Madrid, 1 December 2019 – As world leaders land in Madrid for the 25th UN climate change conference (COP25), the climate crisis is causing immense suffering across southern and eastern Africa where

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Falling through the Cracks: Tackling the Justice Deficit for Women Survivors in Ghana

This research report is part of a multi-country ActionAid campaign on access to justice for women, looking both at the global barriers to justice as well as the specific deficits in each of the four