Jersey banks walking tour and public event
In March 2009, ahead of the G20 summit in London in April, European civil society networks – including the Tax Justice Network, Attac France and Attac Jersey, Christian Aid and BankTrack – organised a...
View ArticleNGO engagement with the mining company Vedanta
In 2007, UK NGOs ACTSA, Christian Aid and SCIAF published the joint report Undermining Development? – Copper Mining in Zambia, which questioned theVedanta mining company’s corporate social...
View Article‘Schtop tax dodging!’ – ActionAid’s campaign to SABMiller
In 2010 ActionAid undertook extensive and detailed research into the operations of one multinational company (SABMiller) and its operations in six African countries – specifically zeroing in on one...
View ArticleTrace theTax campaign
Christian Aid has been campaigning to raise awareness of the billions lost to developing countries from tax evasion and avoidance by unscrupulous companies. The campaign calls on the International...
View ArticleUK Uncut campaign
In October 2010, the UK’s coalition government announced swinging cuts to government budgets and public sector jobs. In response, many campaigners pointed the finger at the government for cutting...
View ArticleSpecial economic zones in India
In India, SEZs are being set up across the country since legislation was passed in 2005. Activists in India have protested against the SEZs because they say that farmers are being forced off their...
View ArticleZambian CSOs challenge mining tax exemptions
In Zambia, mining development agreements were negotiated with private mining investors who took over copper mines after the privatisation of the Zambian copper industry in 1998.They offered huge tax...
View ArticleForegone mining revenues in the Philippines
In the mid-2000s, the Philippine government began an aggressive push to develop the country’s mining sector.The government sees the country’s abundant mineral wealth, still largely buried underground,...
View ArticleThe Stop EPA campaign highlights lost trade taxes
When negotiations for EPAs started in 2002, civil society across ACP states and in Europe got organised and launched a campaign to ‘Stop EPAs’.The concerns with the proposed agreements included the...
View ArticleThe tax justice campaign in Europe
Tax justice campaigners in Europe, includingTax Justice Network, Eurodad, Christian Aid, CCFD, MISEREOR and ActionAid, have been pushing for G20 governments to address the issue of transfer pricing...
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