To be able to provide essential services such as hospitals and schools required by their people, developing country governments need to have the power to collect the taxes they are due from big...
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference centre in Geneva is bustling with over 3000 people representing governments, the UN, NGOs, academia and the private sector. They have...
Even now, I feel like I’m still inside the debris, amongst the heaped dead bodies and buzzing flies. Hearing the screams of the survivors, the screeching of the industrial machinery lifting away...
The U.S. Senate is holding public hearings today on Apple Computer’s use of tax havens to avoid paying taxes. The hearings - and the related Congressional investigations into corporate tax avoidance...
Ever seen a laughter flashmob? ActionAid and friends took it to the streets last weekend to promote our amazing all-woman comedy gala on Thursday May 9th 2013. You can get tickets to this event,...
I hear wailing horn of the ambulance losing to sirens from a heavy jeep hoisting the flag of Bangladesh and being escorted by special order protocol men carrying walky-talkies, dust masks and khaki...
Though Margaret Thatcher is no longer among the living, her ideology lives on. That ideology – known today as neoliberalism, or “free market fundamentalism” in a phrase coined by George Soros – is...
This blog was written by Matheus Bizarria, an Activista from ActionAid BrazilYesterday I was surprised to learn that my 16 year old cousin, always very quiet and calm, had been suspended from school...
ActionAid and the NGO community this week celebrated the launch of the inaugural annual report for the Australian-African Community Engagement Scheme (AACES), which showcases some promising...
One of the women who impressed us most on our visit to Kenya last year was Susan Apua, a 36 year old smallholder farmer. She’s a mother of six who also had to adopt six more children when her husband...
