Taxation rights slipping through the cracks: How developing countries can get a better deal on their tax treaties
Tax treaties prescribe how countries can tax cross-border activities between the treaty partners. In the overwhelming majority of cases, they are outdated and unfair. In the form that they commonly
Manganese Matters
ActionAid and Dutch NGO Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)’s new report, Manganese Matters, finds that the increased demand for manganese for batteries is posing a serious threat
World Food Day: Women farmers most at risk from Covid-19 food crisis
On World Food Day, ActionAid releases early findings research into how measures to control Covid-19 are affecting the lives of women smallholder farmers across 14 countries in Africa and Asia*. It
AidWatch 2014: Aid beyond 2015
Key messages and findings:Aid quantity:Despite growing humanitarian and development challenges, such as the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, EU aid is off track to meet the 0.7% aid target in
Fair shares: is CAADP working?
ActionAid, African Union Commission and ONE Campaign held a high level panel discussion as part of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The
Game of two halves – football finals offer ray of hope in Europe while Uganda turns stadium into Covid-19 hospital
Number of Ugandans fully vaccinated equivalent to less than 5% of Wembley stadium capacity.
A call for action to ensure strong regulation of the financial sector to avoid environmental, social and governance risks
Across Africa, Latin America and Asia families are being forced off their land and rainforests razed to the ground – for projects backed by European money.Companies looking for land to grow crops for
Hotter Planet, Humanitarian Crisis
The world is currently enduring an unprecedented combination of climate-related crises. We are living through what will almost certainly be the hottest year on record, and have faced one of the
El Niño: The Silent Emergency
In April 2016, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, alerted governments gathered in Geneva that they collectively faced “an alarming funding gap of over $2.2 billion” to
G7 support for pharma monopolies is putting millions of lives at risk
head of the G7 Leaders’ Summit, the People’s Vaccine Alliance warned that G7 promises to vaccinate the world by 2022 will be impossible to fulfil, if governments continue blocking proposals to waive
