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Name: ActionAid

First reported 13 mins ago - Updated 13 mins ago - 1 reports

Creating opportunity for the youth

Empowerment through employmentDHARAN, May 25: A shop keeper from the nearby shop walks in to order noodles. Divya gets up instantly and takes the order while Dipika starts preparing the utensils necessary to cook. The aroma of spices fills the room and ... [Published MyRepublica.com - 13 mins ago]

Entities: Dharan (Nepal), Nepal, ActionAid

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

British Red Cross

Local wills help national causes

Angus solicitors have expressed their thanks to clients who helped them raise nearly $4,000 during Will Aid month last year.Three local firms - Marjory MacDonald Solicitors, Arbroath; Alan E. Masterton Solicitors, Monifieth; and J. Myles & Co., Carnoustie ... [Published Arbroath Today - 1 hour ago]

Entities: British Red Cross, Christian Aid, ActionAid, NSPCC National Society for the Prevention of Cr..., Save the Children

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

African Union Commission, NGOs agree to make agriculture top of Agenda 2063

Investment in agriculture is one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty in Africa, according to participants at a high-level panel discussion held here Thursday by officials of the African Union Commission, ONE and ActionAid.Briefing journalists ... [Published Afrique En Ligne - May 24 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, African Union Commission, Bono, ActionAid

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

ActionAid

Poor Nations “Deprived of Billions as Half of Investment Is Channeled Through Tax Havens”

Each year many of the world’s developing nations lose out on billions of dollars through corporations’ use of tax havens, notes a report from ActionAid. Companies increasingly focus on tax reduction. According to the report, nearly half the money invested ... [Published Yale Global Online - May 24 2013]

Entities: Tax-Haven, ActionAid, Group of Eight

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

The Bangladesh factory collapse - no accident

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 concrete slabs and the wails of thousands of desperate relatives ... [Published ActionAid - May 24 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Workers, ActionAid

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Christian Aid

Government and stakeholders discuss tax reform

The government has held a key stakeholder meeting to discuss plans going forward that would see it work with other governments and international agencies to reform rules governing international taxation.The stakeholders – including accountants, lawyers, ... [Published Accountancy Live - May 24 2013]

Entities: Tax Reform, Erosion, Taxes, Christian Aid, ActionAid

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Islamic Relief

Bangladesh wins UN award for disaster risk reduction success

Bangladesh has won the prestigious UN-Sasakawa Award 2013 jointly with Brazil for successes in reducing disaster risks at community level and championing disaster risk reduction advocacy at global level.The National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response ... [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - May 23 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Islamic Relief, ActionAid, United Nations

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 9 reports

Study finds poor countries suffer revenue losses

NEARLY half of the money that multinationals and wealthy investors poured into emerging markets in 2011 came via tax havens, resulting in revenue losses for poor countries, anti-poverty campaigners ActionAid said in a report yesterday. Forty-six percent ... [Published Shanghai Daily - May 23 2013]

Entities: ActionAid, Tax-Haven, Mineral Rights, Taxes

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

African farmers helping Africa move ahead

Jenine Coetzer The contribution and potential of African farmers, especially small scale farmers, women farmers and youth farmers who are helping Africa move ahead by confronting and overcoming hunger and poverty, was celebrated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ... [Published SABC - May 23 2013]

Entities: ActionAid, African Union Commission, Addis Abeba

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Greek volunteers come to work in Tam Duong

(VEN) - Despite differences in age, occupations and backgrounds, they share the same philanthropy and spirit of humanity to come to Vietnam to do social welfare work. They are members of the Greek volunteer team and ActionAid Vietnam (AAV) who came to ... [Published Vietnam Economic News - May 23 2013]

Entities: ActionAid, Vietnam, Social Welfare

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

ActionAid Nigeria Refutes NOI Polls Report on Poverty Threshold

ActionAid Nigeria, an anti-poverty agency, has frowned on the NOI Polls report, which claimed that 80 per cent of Nigerians live above the one-dollar-a-day poverty threshold.In a statement issued by the organisation, Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria, ... [Published This Day Online - May 23 2013]

Entities: ActionAid, Nigeria, misleading, Cowpea

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

One Rotten Apple Spoils the Barrel

Brandon Wu is a Senior Policy Analyst at ActionAid USA, focusing on international climate finance and adaptation policy.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 ... [Published ActionAid USA - May 23 2013]

Entities: Apple Inc, Tax-Haven, ActionAid

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...Developed nations lose out on revenues, too. ActionAid’s tax expert Mike Lewis carried out the research, focused on the UK, and suggests that "tax havens are one of the main obstacles in the fight against global poverty” and that “their secrecy and harmful tax regimes leach money out of developing countries that could be used to end hunger and provide hospitals, schools and clean water.” Additionally, the research showed that G8 members are responsible for nearly 40 percent of the tax havens worldwide. Some multinational firms refuse to rely on tax havens. The G8 meets in June and could call for tax reform and transparency. – YaleGlobal"

Poor Nations “Deprived of Billions as Half of Investment Is Channeled Through Tax Havens” [Published Yale Global Online - May 24 2013]

HMRC said: "We are grateful to business and the other attendees for the time and energy that they put into the event. We will continue to talk to business as the work progresses to understand how developing options deal with the problem areas identified, and how they impact on business models and inward and outward investment to and from the UK."

Government and stakeholders discuss tax reform [Published Accountancy Live - May 24 2013]

"Many multinationals and wealthy individuals place the legal ownership of valuable assets in companies registered offshore," the report said. "In some cases, such opaque corporate 'black boxes' can be used to evade tax. But even when they are used entirely lawfully, they can deny developing countries the ability to tax the wealth generated when mineral rights, factories, land and businesses in their territories change hands."

Study finds poor countries suffer revenue losses [Published Shanghai Daily - May 23 2013]

Poor nations "deprived of billions as half of investment is chanelled through tax havens"

Poor nations 'deprived of billions as half of investment is chanelled through tax havens' [Published The Independent - May 23 2013]

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Creating opportunity for the youth [Published MyRepublica.com - 13 mins ago]
Local wills help national causes [Published Arbroath Today - 1 hour ago]
Many school, madrassah buildings risky [Published New Age Bangladesh - May 24 2013]
In Boko Haram Offensive, Nigerian Forces on Fam... [Published VOA News - May 24 2013]
Poor Nations “Deprived of Billions as Half of I... [Published Yale Global Online - May 24 2013]
The Bangladesh factory collapse - no accident [Published ActionAid - May 24 2013]
Government and stakeholders discuss tax reform [Published Accountancy Live - May 24 2013]
African Union Commission, NGOs agree to make ag... [Published Afrique En Ligne - May 24 2013]
Bangladesh wins UN award for disaster risk redu... [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - May 23 2013]
Bangladesh, Brazil share UN Award [Published The New Nation - May 23 2013]
Study finds poor countries suffer revenue losses [Published Shanghai Daily - May 23 2013]
African farmers helping Africa move ahead [Published SABC - May 23 2013]
Tax havens most dangerous scam in world economy... [Published Ghana Business News - May 23 2013]
Almost half of all investment into developing c... [Published ActionAid USA - May 23 2013]
Poor nations 'deprived of billions as half of i... [Published The Independent - May 23 2013]
The Impact of IMF Loan to Kenya [Published Zunia.org RSS - May 23 2013]
Morning news headlines for May 23, 2013 [Published Liverpool Daily Post - May 23 2013]
Greek volunteers come to work in Tam Duong [Published Vietnam Economic News - May 23 2013]
ActionAid Nigeria Refutes NOI Polls Report on P... [Published This Day Online - May 23 2013]
Tax havens harming developing countries [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 23 2013]
FGG: Ploumen, stop kaalslag OS en waarborg soci... [Published Both Ends - May 23 2013]
Almost half of all investment into developing c... [Published ActionAid UK - May 23 2013]
Poor nations 'deprived of billions' [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 23 2013]
POOR NATIONS 'DEPRIVED OF BILLIONS' [Published Daily Star - May 23 2013]
Half of investments in emerging markets go via ... [Published Business Standard India - May 23 2013]
One Rotten Apple Spoils the Barrel [Published ActionAid USA - May 23 2013]
Poor nations 'deprived of billions' [Published Irish Independent - May 23 2013]
Half of investments in emerging markets go via ... [Published CNBC - May 23 2013]
GRATEFUL WILL AID CHARITIES THANK WALDRONS [Published Waldrons Business - May 22 2013]
Local Government officials lack tax collection ... [Published New Vision - May 22 2013]

Blogs

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The Impact of IMF Loan to Kenya [Published Zunia.org RSS - May 23 2013] The Government of Kenya and the international Monetary Fund (IMF) signed a loan of $$508.7 million in January 2011. The funds are expected to be released in three different tranches spread out till 2013. ActionAid International (AAI) has consistently ...
Fatster’s Roundup [Published Firedoglake - May 13 2013] Hello there. International Developments ❖ United Nations’ top human rights official warns of “‘much greater urgency’ in efforts to end the conflict in Syria, saying massacres carried out in recent days should spur international action.” She disparaged ...
FTSE 100's use of tax havens – get the full list [Published News: Datablog \| guardian.co.uk - May 12 2013] Research has found that the UK's biggest public companies have more than 8,000 subsidiaries or joint ventures in tax havens – but which businesses have the most?• Get the data • More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian Which ...
Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 5, 201... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 06 2013] Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information Overload is Pattern RecognitionMay ...
Need Action Pre-2020 – Observers react to close... [Published Green (Living) Review - May 03 2013] BONN, GERMANY – As week-long UN climate talks closed, observers urged the process to take aim at climate polluting energy production. "Red alert alarm bells are ringing in every corner of the globe - more droughts, more storms, more devastation because ...

Audio/Video

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Inside Story - Tax avoidance: Legality vs morality [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Feb 11 2013]

Press Releases

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Joint Protest at 8AST [Published CisionWire - English - Dec 07 2012]
EMERGENCY APPEAL - DOHA ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER [Published CisionWire - English - Dec 06 2012]