Its not often that you can celebrate an outright, global triumph for
the advocacy efforts of a movement. Today, for tax justice, is one of
those days. The high level UN panel report launched today, by a group
of heads of state and ministers from around the world, may come to be
seen as a pivotal moment in the worlds fight against illicit finance
and tax abuse. If their envisaged changes follow, the $427 billion
that we conservatively estimate to be lost in tax revenue each year
may finally be curbed.
Nigerian activists lobby African Finance ministers meeting.
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USA/Global: Taxing the Tech Giants
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Africa/Global: The Inequality Virus
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Editor s Note
It feels strange to write about a humanitarian crisis in this day and age with barely any pictures, videos or witness testimonies from the ground. But that is what the situation in Ethiopias Tigray region has come to. Since the conflict between the federal government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and the regional governments ruling party, the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), began in November 2020, access to the region has been extremely limited. Internet and telephone connectivity was cut off as soon as the fighting began, disconnecting about 5 million people. Months later, the internet remains down and telephone communication has only been restored in a few main towns. Journalists and human rights monitors are still denied entry and cannot report to the world the full scale of the violence which has left at least hundreds of people dead and more than 470,000 displaced, according to the UN. - Vanessa Tsehaye, Amnesty International