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27 May 2016

Celebrities share their funny first period stories

Our new poll shows that a third of women in the UK are too embarrassed to talk about their periods. So to open up the conversation and smash period ta...

Comedian Jo Brand shares her period story with us. Photo: ActionAid

15 Apr 2016

Hunger hurts: mothers struggle to feed their children

Climate change and the El Niño weather phenomenon mean that families already living on the margins of survival are struggling to grow or buy the food ...

Mike Noyes

Head of Humanitarian Response

Malyuun fears for her three-year-old daughter, Nimo. . Photo: ,Jennifer Huxta/Actionaid

21 Mar 2016

Why we’re using poetry to fight violence against women

This World Poetry Day, I want to tell you about some amazing activist poets who have inspired our latest campaign to end violence against women. Read ...

Nimah is the volunteer chair of a women’s rights coalition in her community in Somaliland. ActionAid’s Fearless campaign calls on the government to support organisations like Nimah’s. Photo: Jennifer Huxta / ActionAid

15 Mar 2016

Singer Lucy Rose on stopping the abortions of girls in India

Singer Lucy Rose's new music video 'Nebraska' stars Danny Dyer as a conflicted man coming to terms with how to present himself to the world as who he ...

Lucy Rose

Celebrity guest blogger

Mothers with their new born daughters at Beti Utsav celebration at Bhalswa, New Delhi. Photo: Poulomi Basu/ActionAid

21 Dec 2015

Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds OBE on her hopes for 2016

Four-time Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds OBE currently holds an impressive ten world records. She won her first Paralympic medal aged jus...

Four-time Paralympic swimming champion Ellie Simmonds. . Photo: ActionAid

2 Jul 2015

Actress Emilia Fox shares her diary from Ethiopia

ActionAid ambassador, actress Emilia Fox travelled to Ethiopia, where over a quarter of the population live below the poverty line. Her diary highligh...

Emilia Fox

Actor and ActionAid Ambassador

Emilia listens to students reading at the Annaso school in Girar Jarso community, Ethiopia. Photo: Greg Funnell/ActionAid