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actionaid, feminism, feministleadership, womensrights

ActionAid’s Ten Principles of Feminist Leadership

How we put feminist leadership into practice Our transformative vision of a just world free from poverty, oppression and patriarchy requires transformative feminist leaders: leaders who enable others to lead, building power with them instead of over them. To develop

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Voices of impact: celebrating global women’s rights through connection and action

Join us for a powerful and inspiring evening as we celebrate the impact of the Women’s Rights Programme, supported by Irish Aid, Ireland’s official programme for overseas development. Date and time: 19 June 2025, 6:00 PM.Location: Academy Plaza Hotel, 10-14

humanitarian, womensrights

ActionAid Ireland says displaced women in shelters in Lebanon forced to manage period using black bags

Conditions for women displaced due to attacks by Israeli forces in Lebanon are so bad many are being forced to use scraps of cloth, or to wrap black plastic bags around their waist in place of period products, an ActionAid

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Female farmers harvesting dreams in Bangladesh

A powerful new photo book from ActionAid Bangladesh captures the inspiring stories of six women who have seen their dreams come true to become sustainable farmers in the face of climate change. In the early days of her marriage, two

coronavirus, labourrights, womensrights, work, workersrights

“All we want is a job” How the Covid-19 pandemic is taking away women’s livelihoods

For the world’s poorest people, livelihoods have disappeared overnight. Find out how informal workers are struggling with no jobs, no income and no food as the COVID-19 pandemic takes its toll. “People die from coronavirus but we will die from

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Event- “Women Rising: the Global Fight to End FGM”

Please join us on Thursday 9th July from 13:00-14:00 for this online lunchtime discussion. The United Nations Population Fund has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to an extra 2 million girls worldwide undergoing FGM in the next decade.

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