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How Kende fought back child marriage and the trap of teenage pregnancy with education

Kende is an 18-year old survivor of child marriage with a two-year old child, who has returned back to school to reclaim her life and that of her child's.

ActionAid wins EU #ChangingLives video competition

Sumaila Abdul-Rahman, Country Director of ActionAid Ghana receives the Overall Award for Video Most Appealing to the European Public from Paolo Salivia, the Chargé d’Affaires of the European Union in

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"The training has been great so far"

Richard Acheampong lives at Oyarifa Teiman, one of the fifteen communities that falls under the scope of the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipal Assembly (LaNMMA) in the Greater Accra region.

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Action for Global Justice: ActionAid Ghana's Take

Our new strategy, “Action for Global Justice” strengthens and implements learnings from our previous strategy.

With a critical understanding of the influencers and causes of extreme poverty and

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Position paper: Integrating SRHR, decent work and unpaid care work

This position paper is a product of the first three years of the ‘Young Urban Women: Life Choices and Livelihoods Programme’ aimed at empowering young women by addressing their economic rights (in

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Adriano Campolina, Secretary General, will be leaving ActionAid in September 2019

Adriano Campolina, Secretary General of ActionAid, will be leaving in September, 2019

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Policy Brief: Incorporation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Unpaid Care Work into regional polices: Africa

Time to start caring – how ignoring Unpaid Care Work is holding back economic empowerment of Africa’s rural women

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Campaigners celebrate historic international law to end violence and harassment in the world of work

Campaigners are celebrating after a historic international law to end violence and harassment in the world of work has today been adopted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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Kpogadzi COMBAT paves the way for rights protection

In less than a year following their launch, members of ActionAid’s Community-Based Anti-violence Team (COMBAT) in Kpogadzi, a community in the Volta Region of Ghana, have made progress in promoting

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A brighter future for Kubra Sumani

My name is Kubra Sumani. I am 17 years old and a Junior High School (J.H.S) 1 student of the Yabraso Roman Catholic JHS located in the Brong Ahafo region. I am the third of five siblings, I have two