ActionAid International

Um, arrived in Iquitos in Peru, which is just staggeringly poor.

And having done a bit of work, uh, for Action Aid, which has been kind of incredible over the years as, as an ambassador, I have gone to Haiti and Uganda, so I was not unaccustomed to that kind of poverty.

And that was my first kind of ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, what is this privileged white woman doing here looking for some sort of spiritual healing when these people are, you know, struggling to survive? But then of course the, the, the terrible conundrum is that a lot of white people go there to go on ayahuasca retreats, which does of course bring b- money into the community.

And certainly, and I do really wanna say that the Temple of the Way of Light are incredibly sincere about giving back to the community.

What happens there could become a precedent and a frightening model for how Europe manages irregular migration in the future.

That's why I stand with Action Aid, which is exposing the human costs and failures of a system built around detention and showing how it may breach people's rights in an unbalanced, unfair way.

Migration can be managed without inhumane conditions, without weakening the right to seek asylum, and without treating human rights as obstacles.

We are all migrants, every single one of us.

200,000 francs per household, funded by a national envelope.

I met a local activist yesterday who mentioned that ActionAid also ran a mangrove restoration day in Dinda, planting propagules across five hectares.

These initiatives matter here.

The land is changing, the tides are shifting, and the people are trying to adapt.

has called it a genocide.

Action Aid International has called it a genocide.

Trocaire has called it a genocide.

Medeco International has called it a genocide.

The mangroves themselves are remarkable, trees with roots that twist and knot, creating a complex underwater forest that protects the coast from erosion and provides habitat for countless species.

I met a young man named Musa who works with ActionAid on a mangrove restoration project in the nearby hamlet of Ndinda.

He told me that last week, dozens of youths planted propagules across five hectares of land.

It is a small effort, but it matters.

But they're under pressure.

I read recently that ActionAid ran a mangrove restoration day in the hamlet of Mdinda, just outside town, where it's planted propagules across several hectares.

The mayor used the event to demand a special protection plan for the islands.

It is a reminder that conservation here is not just about saving trees.

Do you believe Benjamin Netanyahu, Itmar Ben-Gavir and Bizarro Smotrich about what's been happening in Gaza? Or do you believe the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry, the UN Special Committee, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 14 other UN Special Rapporteurs, the former UN...

Humanitarian chief, UNICEF, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Bet Salem, Gisha, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid, Action Aid, the NGO Air Wars, the NGO Action on Armed Violence, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and its president, Melanie O'Brien, the editor of the...

That's a big one.

The International Agency of Genocide Scholars.

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Ayres.

I met with ActionAid advocates this morning who raised some serious concerns.

With every degree of global warming, women around the world pay the heaviest price, losing livelihoods as droughts and floods destroy crops.

facing greater food insecurity and experiencing high rates of domestic violence in the wake of climate-driven disasters.

that everyone who's in dispute can agree to rather than instruct an overpriced commercial disputes firm like mine because I'll spend all the money on like merch and sponsoring weird podcasts that I don't think you follow any of or whatever and donating it all to charity and stuff like that.

It is fun taking money from Zionists and like donating it to like ActionAid's Gaza appeal and stuff like that.

So like every time you send a bill, I'm like, yeah, looking forward to that getting paid.

Guess where that money's going.