With psychological counselling and training from Action Against Hunger, mothers find strength, start businesses, and support their families. Photo: Sébastien Duijndam for Action Against Hunger, Iraq   In northern Iraq, golden hills and distant mountains simmer in hazy heat. Poverty, vulnerability, and unemployment affect nearly everyone here: local host communities, displaced Iraqis, and refugees from […]

Action Against Hunger staff member looks out over tents where displaced families live. On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing an estimated 220,000 people, injuring 300,000 and displacing 1.5 million people from their homes. The quake destroyed infrastructure, caused a deep economic recession, and led to the country’s first […]

Action Against Hunger leads cholera prevention in areas hardest-hit by epidemic. Photo: Christophe Da Silva for Action Against Hunger On Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 – almost a decade ago, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake had just destroyed much of Haiti. Over 3 million people were affected by the earthquake. At that time, Trazillio Mazard a lab […]

Demberie and one of her children in front of their home. Photo by: Lys Arango During the 1980s, northern Ethiopia was immersed in one of the worst humanitarian crises in history: “A biblical famine in the twentieth century,” says Michael Buerk, reporter for the BBC while documenting those scenes of death and despair in the […]

Gender-based violence is a pervasive protection and human rights issue that is often exacerbated during and after humanitarian emergencies. While the existence of gender-based violence may be extremely difficult to document in any given emergency, research has shown that incidences of gender-based violence are under-reported and occur regardless of the presence or absence of evidence. […]