Press Releases

We can also facilitate press trips; provide comment pieces and a range of multimedia, including broadcast quality footage from countries we work in, high resolution images and audio.

For international press enquiries contact Natalie Curtis: Tel: +44 (0) 203 122 0641/ Mobile: +44 (0)7931787025, Natalie.Curtis@actionaid.org

PRESS RELEASE: Almost half of all investment into developing countries goes through tax havens, ActionAid reveals
Thursday, 23 May 2013 –

Almost half of all money invested in developing countries is channelled through tax havens, a new ActionAid report revealed today.
PRESS RELEASE: ActionAid prepared for Tropical Cyclone Mahasen
Friday, 17 May 2013 –

As Tropical Cyclone Mahasen passes through Bangladesh with minimal casualties, ActionAid remains ready to respond to any relief efforts that may be needed in the region.
PRESS RELEASE: G8's biofuel use contributing to world hunger
Monday, 29 April 2013 –

Amount of food crops burnt by richest nations as biofuels could feed half the world’s hungriest people, ActionAid says
PRESS RELEASE: ActionAid response to BRICS announcement of development bank
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 –
REACTION: ActionAid’s reaction to the EC’s analysis of the social impacts of its biofuels policies
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 –

EC report on social impacts of biofuels is a whitewash, claims ActionAid
Interview availability: Will BRICS summit (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) overhaul the global economy?
Monday, 25 March 2013 –

ActionAid is at the summit of BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and available for interviews on:
The new BRICS Development Bank – what will its announcement in Durban mean for rapidly emerging economies and the World?
A rumoured new alternative to the International Monetary Fund
Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent plea to BRICS leaders to mediate the on-going conflict in Syria
ActionAid calls for post-15 development panel to address domestic taxation
Friday, 22 March 2013 –

Taxation must be central to discussions on how to finance any new development goals, ActionAid said today ahead of a meeting of the high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda next week in Bali.
PRESS RELEASE: Vatican leads charge with Iran, Russia and Syria to roll back on women’s rights at UN
Thursday, 14 March 2013 –

(London, 14 March 2013) The Vatican is leading attempts to roll-back agreement on women’s rights at the most significant UN Summit on eliminating violence against women and girls in a decade, ActionAid said today.
ActionAid USA appoints Marie Brill as Executive Director
Thursday, 7 March 2013 –
Interview Availability: Kenya Elections
Friday, 1 March 2013 –
PRESS STATEMENT: ActionAid Is Not Against Big Business in Zambia
Wednesday, 13 February 2013 –

(Lusaka, 13 February 2013) ActionAid has said today that its recent report Sweet Nothings which focuses on Zambia Sugar’s tax avoidance techniques in Zambia is not a call for Zambia Sugar to close its factory in Mazabuka or reduce its workers. ActionAid is calling on the Zambian government and the international community to review the tax codes and tax treaties that allow multinational companies to avoid paying their fair share of taxes in Zambia.
ActionAid reaction to the OECD Addressing Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) report which is released today
Tuesday, 12 February 2013 –
INTERNATIONAL PRESS: British Sugar Giant Dodges Zambian Tax Bill Big Enough to Put 48,000 Children in School a Year
Sunday, 10 February 2013 –

(Lusaka, 10 February 2013) A new investigation released today by ActionAid has revealed that the Associated British Foods group (ABF), owner of Silver Spoon sugar and other household brands, is avoiding its tax bill in Zambia, one of the world’s poorest countries.
FOR ZAMBIAN PRESS: Zambia Sugar dodges tax bill big enough to put 48,000 children in school a year
Sunday, 10 February 2013 –

(Lusaka, 10 February 2013) A new investigation released today by ActionAid Zambia has revealed that Zambia Sugar, owner of White Spoon sugar and other household brands, is avoiding its tax bill in Zambia.
PRESS RELEASE: Women are central to any ambitions for a post- 2015 economic transformation, say ActionAid
Wednesday, 30 January 2013 –

“The development world must tackle gender inequality head-on”
PRESS RELEASE: Enough Food For Everyone IF
Wednesday, 23 January 2013 –

100 MAJOR CHARITIES LAUNCH JOINT CAMPAIGN TO TACKLE HUNGER TRAP
PRESS RELEASE: Haiti Faces New Crisis Three Years On From Earthquake
Friday, 11 January 2013 –

Three years on from the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti is facing another crisis – catastrophic food shortages caused by the destruction of Hurricane Sandy.
Interview Availability: Delhi Feminists Say No to Death Penalty for Rapists
Friday, 4 January 2013 –
Doha Climate Talks Bury International Climate Action in the Desert
Saturday, 8 December 2012 –

Today, as the UN Climate Change negotiations close, six of the world’s largest environmental and development organizations condemned politicians in particular from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Russia and Poland for blocking any progress, and the EU and Australia for failing to live up to their responsibilities on emissions cuts and finance.
Doha Climate Negotiations Fail the Planet and World’s Poor
Saturday, 8 December 2012 –

Negotiators moved backward on climate justice and forward towards the climate cliff.