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Climate Justice Rianna Ruming

Upholding women’s dignity after a disaster

Most Australian women have access to basic hygiene at all times, many of us always have tampons in our handbags just in case and in recent...

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Climate Justice Rianna Ruming

Tropical Cyclone Harold Response: Women’s Leadership at the Centre of a Localised Response

As the women from Malo walked into the Sanma Provincial Secretary General’s office with a sense of trepidation, humanitarian history was...

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Climate Justice Rianna Ruming

ActionAid and Vanuatu Ministry of Health train local women to lead COVID-19 response

Ni-Vanuatu women are at the forefront of efforts to prevent COVID-19 in Vanuatu as part of  the Australian Government’s Disaster READY...

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COVID-19 Rianna Ruming

Women across Bhopal, India are driving ration distribution

As India raced to stop the spread of coronavirus, enforcing widespread lockdowns, Sarika Sinha swiftly mobilised a volunteer force to...

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COVID-19 Rianna Ruming

COVID-19 cases confirmed in Cox’s Bazar: Rohingya women face dual crisis

Amidst the crowded homes of Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, violence is on the rise, says Sharmin Akter. “There is alway...

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Climate Justice Rianna Ruming

Women Wetem Weta Setting the Tone for Emergency Communications in Vanuatu 

Across the small island nation of Vanuatu, women on the frontlines of COVID-19 are proving to be powerful voices for their community;...

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Climate Justice Rianna Ruming

How Some Pacific Women are Responding to Climate Change and Natural Disasters

Women in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu are dealing with six crises currently – COVID 19, drought, scarcity of potable water,...

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-Francina Nkosi, feminist activist fighting for climate justice in Limpopo, South Africa alongside ActionAid.
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