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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 7h

#Gaza: “We know there is still a long road ahead, but today, we are cautiously optimistic that the world will do what is needed so this day can be the beginning of justice, recovery, and dignity for the Palestinian people.”

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Gaza: "After two years of genocide... this announcement brings cautious relief"

We know there is still a long road ahead, but today, we are cautiously optimistic that the world will do what is needed so this day can be the beginning of justice, recovery, and dignity for the Palestinian people.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 17h

Join us this Sunday as we march alongside thousands of Australians calling for justice for #Palestine. Our solidarity is our strength. Will you join us?

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 6d

Our colleagues in #Gaza highlight the reality on the ground: "There isn’t a single day when we feel secure or fed. Everyone eats very little, afraid food will run out. Nothing is safe. Delivering humanitarian aid often means risking our lives under bombardment."

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Gaza: “The world’s silence and inaction has been devastating"

As the grim mark of two years of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza approaches, ActionAid amplifies the voices of our partners and colleagues who continue to deliver lifesaving aid amidst...

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 21d

Today's news is deeply disappointing. Government’s new emission reduction target of 62%-70% by 2035 falls well short of what’s needed to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis for communities across Australia and the women we work with around the world on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

Australia vows to cut emissions 62 to 70 per cent by 2035

Australia will vow to cut its emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035, lifting its sights further as the world strives to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 22d

“Today, the United Nations concluded that Israel has committed genocide in #Gaza. This is what we have been warning about all along. The report makes clear that four out of five conditions of genocide are met. The world must stop the impunity of Israel."

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The forced reoccupation of Gaza City leaves people with an impossible choice

We now need urgent action from international governments. All arms exports to Israel must be banned, sanctions imposed, and Israeli must be held accountable for violations of international humanitarian law.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 24d

Women across the Pacific region and in low income countries globally are also bearing the brunt of #climate impacts but with fewer resources to mitigate the risks or respond when disasters hit.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 24d

We urgently need the Australian Government to stop extracting and burning fossil fuels and to support communities in Australia and globally to scale up adaptation and disaster response. In Australia, First Nations communities and marginalised groups are the most impacted.

First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 27d

The ICJ advisory opinion found that government's that fail to take action on fossil fuels could have to pay compensation to countries that bear the brunt of climate impacts. All the signals are pointing to an urgent need for climate leadership not the approval of a carbon bomb.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 27d

The government is about to release it's new 2035 emissions reduction target, which must substantially increase ambition in line with the global goal of keeping global heating to 1.5 degrees if Australia is to play its part in averting the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 27d

Prime Minister Albanese has just returned from the Pacific Islands Forum, where Pacific leaders continued their call for urgent climate action to address the existential threat of global heating.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 27d

The government's approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf extension is inconceivable at time when communities across Australia and the world are facing the devastation of #climate disaster upon climate disaster.

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Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

Environment minister Murray Watt says he’s confident new conditions imposed on the North West Shelf gas project extension will ‘protect jobs … and protect the rock art’

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 28d

As PM Albanese arrives in Honiara for the Pacific Islands Forum, @sophiehardefeldt.bsky.social highlights practical ways the Australia can achieve its #climate finance obligations, to support Pacific women & their communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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Australia’s Climate Finance Moment: Will It Step Up for the Pacific?

If Australia wants to step up as a climate leader on the global stage, it must put its words into action and put real money on the table so that women and frontline communities across the Pacific and ...

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · 29d

We are gravely alarmed by the planned reoccupation of #Gaza City, which threatens to devastate communities and endanger lives, particularly pregnant women already living in severe famine conditions.

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Gaza City reoccupation threatens 50% of ActionAid local partners and puts starving pregnant women at extreme risk

ActionAid is gravely alarmed by the planned reoccupation of Gaza City, which threatens to devastate communities, silence local civil society organisations, and endanger the lives of countless civilians, particularly pregnant women already living in severe famine conditions.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Sep 8

ActionAid is on the ground delivering emergency relief such as food, basic supplies and hygiene kits in response to the #Afghanistan earthquake. Pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and menstruating girls are most in danger and need urgent support.

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“The greatest loss was our children, this pain cannot be described” ActionAid responds to the Afghanistan Earthquake.

Following a powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on 31 August, causing widespread devastation across the provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, and Laghman. More than 2,200 people have...

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Sep 3

ActionAid has joined other NGOs to call on the Australian Government to arrive at this year’s Pacific Islands Forum with a bold new #climate finance commitment, in step with Pacific leaders’ urgent calls for action.

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Ahead of Pacific Islands Forum, Australia must triple climate finance and back Pacific leadership

Climate and development organisations are calling on the Australian Government to arrive at this year’s Pacific Islands Forum with a bold new climate finance commitment, in step with Pacific leaders’ ...

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Sep 3

ActionAid is responding to the devastating earthquake in #Afghanistan. The most urgent needs are healthcare, food, clean water, search & rescue teams, and equipment. We are particularly concerned about women who face heightened vulnerabilities in emergencies.

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Afghanistan earthquake: ActionAid racing against time to provide urgent humanitarian aid

The scale of this tragedy is heartbreaking. We are concerned about the welfare of the affected communities, particularly women and girls who face heightened vulnerabilities in emergencies.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Sep 1

"... the most affected people in this aggression are pregnant and breastfeeding #women... Our hospital’s nutrition department is distributing supplements for the women, [but] the need is greater than our capacity.”

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7 out of 10 pregnant and breastfeeding women in Gaza are malnourished, doctors tell ActionAid

According to Al Awda hospital, an alarming 70 to 75% of the 300 daily pregnant and breastfeeding women who visit ActionAid’s partner, Al Awda hospital, are reported to be suffering from malnutrition.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 22

A famine in #Gaza has been confirmed by the IPC after months of deliberate starvation imposed through the Israeli government’s blockade of lifesaving aid.  help.actionaid.org.au/4lDVKTG

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are proud to be one of the many organisations who have endorsed the Nationwide March for Palestine. This weekend will be a huge moment of solidarity with #Palestine - please join your local rally!

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 18

The majority of Australians agree that coal, oil and gas corporations should pay for the damage caused by their climate pollution, and that #climate change and extreme weather is contributing to cost-of-living pressures.

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Make Big Polluters Pay: Australians think coal, oil and gas corporations should pay for climate pollution damage

75% of Australians believe that climate change is increasing the cost of living, as new alliance calls on Government to take action ahead of Economic Reform Roundtable

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Keep standing in solidarity with the people of Palestine. The pressure is working.

#gaza #gazaunderattack #ceasefirenow

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 11

But so much more is needed right now. We need to see concrete action from the Australian Government to stop Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, for a permanent and immediate ceasefire, and for aid to flow unhindered into Gaza.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 11

We welcome the Australian Government's decision to recognise Palestine next month at the United Nations.

We urge the Australian Government to support the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state that enables the Palestinian people to live freely with dignity and justice.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 11

ActionAid condemns the Israeli government’s decision to occupy #Gaza City, which will forcibly displace hundreds of thousands more Palestinians. These actions are a clear violation of international law. The Australian Government must take urgent, concrete action.

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ActionAid Australia @actionaidaustralia.bsky.social · Aug 8

Add your name to our letter to Prime Minister Albanese, asking him to take action for #Gaza: help.actionaid.org.au/3UAaHLh