ACT Alliance, along with a number of faith-based groups and UN agencies, is hosting the 7th annual Symposium on the Role of Religion and Faith-based Organisations in International Affairs on January 26, 2021 from 8:00am-12:30pm (EST). This year’s theme will be “2021: A Defining Year for Accelerating Gender Equality, Equity and Justice.” Registration for the […]
This article originally appeared on the HQAI website. ACT Alliance is the largest protestant and orthodox coalition engaged in humanitarian, development, and advocacy work in the world. It consists of more than 135 members working together in over 120 countries to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people. The […]
Five years ago countries around the world agreed on a plan to tackle the climate crisis. As a result, the Paris Agreement was born, and an era of international cooperation to deliver climate action began. The Paris Agreement has already delivered concrete results, and various national, regional and international decisions and initiatives since then have […]
Civil society organisations in the Philippines are suspicious of the intent of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 that the Philippine congress passed this year. President Duterte’s administration has insidiously made it difficult for civil society organisations to engage and influence the country’s development. Only a few months after this law passed, ACT Alliance member National […]
The El Impenetrable area of the Province of Chaco, Argentina, has suffered cycles of recurrent droughts and floods for the last 20 years. This year, the drought added to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has made families of small farmers and indigenous communities in the area more vulnerable. In a solidarity response to […]
The regional Gender CoP Asia Pacific is happy to invite everybody interested to a webinar within the framework of the campaign “16 days of activism”. Dr. Beulah Shekhar, Emeritus Professor in Criminology and Victimology of the Karunya Institute of Technology & Sciences in Coimbatore, India, has plenty of practical and theoretical experience in regard to […]
The following statement was issued by the ACT Ethiopia Forum about the situation in the Tigray region. ACT has also issued two alerts (one for Ethiopia, and one for Sudan) regarding humanitarian response in the region. The ACT Alliance Ethiopia Forum lifts up in prayer the people affected by the crisis that erupted on the […]
Last week, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) was being reviewed for the first time at regional level by governments, UN agencies, and other stakeholders, to assess progress made in its implementation since it was adopted by the UN GA in December 2018. The first region to conduct such a review […]
ACT members in Lebanon are continuing to respond to humanitarian need after an explosion devastated Beirut on August 4, 2020. The ACT Lebanon Forum put out an appeal, which can be pledged to by contacting George Majaj. Here are three stories, from the Middle East Council of Churches, the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees, […]
Super Typhoon Goni, referred to locally as Typhoon Rolly, made landfall in the municipality of Bato, Catanduanes province in the Philippines on 1 November 2020. Over 1.4 million people in five regions across Luzon were affected. The typhoon made landfall as a category five storm and has been labelled the world’s strongest typhoon of 2020. […]