Ajok Fildas is now 30 years old, it is over 10 years since she escaped from her captors in the bush but she still has nightmares and her life is marred from the physical and mental trauma she...
On 7 May 2013, more than 250 senior government officials from 30 out of Myanmar’s 32 Ministries congregated in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw to embark on a three days workshop about participatory...
Richard Opiro is only 24 years now, as he sits here with his little 3 year old daughter Aromo Patricia he remembers the day he was abducted from his home in Otici in northern Uganda by rebel forces....
The Tax dialogue in many African countries has for a long time been left either to the tax collectors trying to reach their annual almost always 'bursting targets' or to the government technocrats....
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...
Kenya is in the global spotlight as historic elections took place on March 4, 2013. The voter turn-out was almost 70% - some 10 million people joined the long queues all over the country. The...
ActionAid has produced a new report Sweet Nothings which has thrown a spotlight on the tax practices of one of the world's largest multinationals Associated British Foods. Findings that it has...
Wow, what a week! The launch of our new report ‘sweet nothings’, exposing tax dodging by the Associated British Food Group, has created a media frenzy. Here’s a round-up of what’s been going on this...
Read about our report, Sweet Nothings, on the human impact of avoiding tax in ZambiaThe litany of major multinational companies accused of tax avoidance has grown, with Associated British Foods –...
This report examines the tax practices of one of the world’s largest food multinationals, the Associated British Foods (ABF) group, in one of the most impoverished places in which it operates. ABF...
