Women’s Rights & Leadership in Humanitarian Action

ActionAid is a global justice organisation working with women to fight injustice and claim their human rights in 45 countries. ActionAid considers humanitarian crises as part of the cycle of rights denial and poverty, whereby conflict and disaster impact those who are most vulnerable and deepen existing inequalities in access to decision making and resources. Advancing women’s rights in emergencies, and specifically promoting women’s leadership in disaster preparedness, response and recovery, is part of ActionAid’s core humanitarian signature and a critical strategy for shifting power to women.