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DRC refugees in Uganda

The presence of uncontrolled armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has led to ...

ACT Alliance awards best work to mitigate the effects of climate change

The ACT Alliance Climate Change Award for 2013 was given May 21st to RDRS Bangladesh for best practice in its ...

Governments must accelerate efforts to eradicate violence against women

Alarming statistics illustrate the enormous obstacles that remain in the way of eliminating epidemic levels of violence against women and ...

As Syrian conflict mounts, refugees flock to Lebanon, Jordan and Armenia

As the bitter battle for Damascus intensifies and further engulfs the region, ACT Alliance expects that even more than 1.1 ...

Syrian refugees welcomed to Lebanon amid political tensions

As their country’s civil war drags on, thousands of Syrian families continue to flee the incessant violence for safety in ...

A deepening food crisis

It looks like any other school yard, any other school day. But it is actually the first school day in ...

A perfect storm exacerbates food crisis in Burkina Faso

Fatumata, 28, knocks the leaves of a thorny tree with a long metal pole and picks them up off the ...