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Beyond Smiling Faces: How engaging with youth can help transform societies and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Youth across the world are frustrated and are speaking up. Through the Arab Spring in 2011 and a series of youth-led protests (e.g. in Brazil in 2013, Bahrain in 2014 or Burkina Faso in May 2015)

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Patching up a broken tax system: Why BEPS is not the solution to poor countries’ tax problems

ActionAid believes that the OECD’s proposed reforms to the international tax system (BEPS) fail to tackle tax avoidance by multinationals, exclude developing nations and will fail to deliver for the

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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 In the overwhelming majority of cases, they are outdated and unfair.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

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Putting ideas to work future: youth design their own futures

[ibimage==30641==image_content_medium==none==self==ibimage_right==Agatha Akankunda presents employment ideas at the Social Design-a-Thon in Kampala, Uganda.]Youth unemployment is one of the biggest

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Putting ideas to work: youth design their own futures

 Youth unemployment is one of the biggest social injustices of our time. It affects young people from all walks of life – informal street sellers on the streets of Lagos to recent graduates in Europe

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Levelling Up: Ensuring a fairer share of corporate tax for developing countries

Key messages of this reportinternational corporate taxation is broken and archaic and it harms all countries, especially developing countries.The Base erosion and profit Shifting (BepS) project will

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Annual Report 2014

This year we kept the spotlight on women’s rights in all our work. This included supporting women and indigenous groups to strengthen their control over land and natural resources by lobbying for

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An Extractive Affair

Malawi, the poorest country in the world, has lost out on US$43 million in revenue over the last six years, from a single company: the Australian mining company Paladin. This money has been lost

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ActionAid Myanmar Annual Report 2014 - Power in Partnerships

2014: A YEAR OF BUILDING STRONG PARTNERSHIPS2014 was a year dedicated to building and consolidating partnerships at all levels in order to deepen and broaden our outreach further. We were particularly

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Caught in the Net: How “net-zero emissions” will delay real climate action and drive land grabs.

United Nations (UN) climate negotiations must urgently and equitably address climate change, and lead to rapid cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases if our planet is to have any hope of stabilising