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== Women's rights ==
ActionAid integrates [[women's rights]] into all of its programming and project work, but also undertakes campaigns that focus specifically on these issues.

Notable examples have included raising awareness about unpaid care work<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/22/women-do-four-years-more-work-than-men-in-lifetime-report-shows|title=Women do four years more work than men in lifetime, report shows|first=Amelia|last=Hill|newspaper=The Guardian|date=22 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/dawn-foster/women%27s-paid-and-unpaid-work-and-colonial-hangover|title=Women's paid and unpaid work, and the colonial hangover|website=[[openDemocracy]]|first=Dawn|last= Foster|date=17 July 2015}}</ref> and sexual harassment<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/50-percent-bangladesh-women-face-unwanted-touching-at-markets-shopping-says-actionaid-study-1434028|title=50% women face unwanted touching at markets: Study|website=The Daily Star|date=17 July 2017}}</ref> and violence<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/actionaid-safe-harm/|title=Gemma Chan Shares Powerful Stories From Sexual Violence Victims In New ActionAid Film|website=Grazia|first=Rebecca|last=Cope|date=8 December 2016}}</ref> (including [[acid attacks]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/brave-acid-attack-victims-take-9997726|title=Brave acid attack victims take to catwalk as they 'refuse to hide their faces'|first=Gabriel|last=Zamfir|author2=Kara O'Neill|website=The Mirror|date =9 March 2017}}</ref>) in [[Bangladesh]], offering free [[cancer]] tests to women in [[Nigeria]] who could not afford them,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/05/18/actionaid-nigeria-offers-free-cancer-tests-to-100-women/|title=Actionaid Nigeria Offers Free Cancer Tests to 100 Women|website=This Day|date=18 May 2017}}</ref> and tackling [[female genital mutilation]] in Sweden.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/tusentals-flickor-i-sverige-riskerar-konsstympning|language=sv|title='Tusentals flickor i Sverige riskerar könsstympning'|website=Svenska Dagbladet|date=14 June 2017}}</ref> ActionAid's ''Who pays?'' report concerning the impact of supermarket [[price war]]s on the income and lives of women in the developing world was listed for debate under an [[early day motion]] in the UK's [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] in 2007.<ref>UK Parliament, [https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/33308/actionaid-who-pays-campaign ActionAid Who Pays? Campaign], tabled on 18 May 2007, accessed on 5 March 2025</ref>