As the Climate caravan of hope arrived in Kampala it was received with a lot of excitement. There were a number of activities that we organized to create awareness about climate from Kabale, Mbrara...
What is the function of governance, what purpose is it expected to serve? Are we not supposed to be beneficiaries of the common good, the reason why any government exists in the first place? Of what...
The African Caravan of Hope finally in Uganda. The Caravan team is made up of a number of Community Organisations that are moving by road from Burundi to South Africa for the COP 17. It set off...
It feels like we’ve gone through about two weeks in the conference center here in Cannes, rather than two days. But we’ve made it through, with all the heads of government now making their closing...
Here in Cannes I’ve had a chance to look through the report, titled dryly “Supporting the development of effective tax systems”.It contains recommendations for the G20 from some of the leading global...
Last night the G20 announced that they had signed a convention against tax evasion that the OECD says could raise £62 billion. The convention, which is not new but rather an update of an existing...
The full extent to which FTSE 100 companies use tax havens has, for the first time, been compiled, analysed and published in an accessible and searchable format by ActionAid.
Marie Consolate Ntahimpera, 46, is a widow with one child who is 15 years old, Ange Noëla. In addition Marie Consolate takes care of 10 other children from her extended family and one orphan girl,...
Global anti-poverty campaigner and ActionAid ambassador Emma Thompson has just returned from a fact finding visit to Burma – Myanmar – where she met with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and a range of community and political leaders against a backdrop of increasing change in the country.
I’ve just come back from Myanmar – an exquisitely beautiful country filled with lush forests and golden pagodas - and some of ActionAid’s most innovative programming. I travelled with ActionAid...
