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 related Congressional investigations into corporate tax avoidance...
I recently returned from spending 10 days with ActionAid Haiti and our partners on the front lines advocating for land and resource rights and innovative approaches to food security. I came away...
I recently returned from spending 10 days with ActionAid Haiti and our partners on the front lines advocating for land and resource rights and innovative approaches to food security. I came away...
I recently returned from a visit with ActionAid Rwanda, whose staff graciously showed me around one of the communities they work with in the western district of Karongi (Gitesi sector). Like much of...
Today you probably paid your taxes, which helps fund social services, necessary infrastructure like roads and public transit, and more. But did you know that a lot of big corporations probably...
When asked to picture a global activist, many would think of Mahatma Ghandi, Vandana Shiva or Martin Luther King, Jr. These are excellent examples of leaders who have sparked global change, but...
I’ve had a few days to reflect on last week’s Green Climate Fund Board meetings in Berlin, which I previewed in a previous blog post for ActionAid. The Green Climate Fund has the potential to be a...
The world is entering a new “age of consequences” with respect to climate change. People from New York City to rural Africa are beginning to feel the effects, including droughts, heat waves, floods,...
As an anti-hunger advocate, I am holding my breath. I am hopeful about the global change that President Obama could make in his second term, especially when it comes to reducing poverty, but I worry...
When I joined ActionAid Haiti’s team in November 2010, about 10 months after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, something particular caught my attention: ActionAid Haiti was responding...
The United States is facing a serious political and budgetary crisis – the so-called “fiscal cliff” – as we come to the end of 2012. If Congress does not act in less than two weeks, automatic,...
US based Herakles Capital is bulldozing its way forward with a herculean land grab in the African Republic of Cameroon. It proposes to establish an oil palm plantation that could destroy over 180,000...
On Tuesday, Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippines, killing hundreds. This comes only a year after the Philippines was devastated by Typhoon Washi, which killed a staggering 1,300 people.With this as...
What does inspiration smell like?Returning from the Activista forum 2012 I think it is a mix of Jordanian yasmine flowers, cup upon cup of instant coffee mixed with a slight hint of sweat from...
Josephine* is a smallholder woman farmer in Chabè, near Caracol in northern Haiti. Caracol is known throughout Haiti as the bread basket of Haiti’s northern region. Josephine* is a widow, with...
The drought across the US Farm Belt has pushed corn prices to record highs. Food prices in your grocery store are expected to rise, hitting people living in poverty and on fixed incomes hardest.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal — about 15 cents — bought eight...
Meryl Streep just got an Oscar award for her spectacular performance of one the world’s most controversial female leaders. A few months back, three women were given the Nobel Peace Prize including...
20 year old Joassaint Nelson is from Philippeaux, an area in which thousands of earthquake survivors have been living in tents since the earthquake of January 2010.
