Press releases and statements

Ninety per cent of the population are living below the poverty line, and 12.9 million are facing acute hunger.

Over 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon in the last year and more than 1 million people fled their homes to escape the violence.

This year’s event raised over £300,000 to support the organisation’s vital work in predicting, preventing, and treating life-threatening hunger and malnutrition across more than 50 countries

Discussions on public financing at COP29 failed to deliver meaningful solutions.

The organisation is also warning that stagnant floodwaters in Valencia are creating severe health hazards, with the risk of infectious disease outbreaks escalating rapidly.

Urgent climate finance and systemic change is needed to protect vulnerable communities facing rising hunger due to the climate crisis

Last week, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee issued an urgent warning: northern Gaza is now facing a ‘worst-case scenario’ for famine

Kate Munro, Head of Advocacy at Action Against Hunger UK, emphasises the need to reinstate aid funding to protect lives and reaffirm the UK’s commitments on the world stage

Action Against Hunger joins forces with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to raise urgent funds to help people affected by the escalating conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.

Several health workers and civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in recent days

One year into the conflict, Action Against Hunger is expanding its humanitarian assistance to reach the most vulnerable families in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

Action Against Hunger has mobilised an emergency response and is urging the international community to unite to deliver immediate and sustained relief efforts.