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Cameron’s G8 tax plan 'no detail and no deadlines'
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18 June 2013
Responding to the outcomes of G8 summit, War on Want’s tax campaigner Murray Worthy said:
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Cameron slated on tax dodge moves
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17 June 2013
The anti-poverty charity War on Want today blamed David Cameron’s failed UK tax policies for undermining prospects of a breakthrough on tackling tax evasion and avoidance at the G8 summit which starts today in Northern Ireland.
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Cameron’s tax havens summit ‘all show and no substance’
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14 June 2013
The anti-poverty charity War on Want today dismissed David Cameron’s summit with Britain’s overseas territories tomorrow (Saturday) as “all show and no substance” and demanded legislation to abolish all of the UK’s tax havens.
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G4S faces protest over Israel ‘torture’ prisons
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04 June 2013
As the world’s biggest security company, G4S, prepares to face protests at its annual meeting this week, the firm’s leaders are today attacked for equipping Israeli prisons where, activists claim, Palestinian children have been tortured. The attack came from the anti-poverty charity War on Want, which also condemns the firm for misinformation that G4S intended to pull out of contracts in illegally occupied Palestine.
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African groups reject G8 corporate food plan as 'colonialism'
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03 June 2013
African farmers’ movements and civil society groups have rejected the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition as part of a "new wave of colonialism" targeting their food systems for corporate profit.
The warning comes in a statement sent to G8 leaders today in advance of the ‘hunger summit’ to be hosted by David Cameron in London on 8 June, which will include a meeting of the New Alliance.
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Benetton & Mango stores face protests over failure to compensate Bangladesh disaster victims
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25 May 2013
Activists will today protest outside Mango and Benetton fashion stores in London’s Oxford Street over the retailers’ failure to compensate families of workers killed, as well as the injured, after the Bangladesh building collapse.
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Pressure on Primark grows over tragedy
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01 May 2013
Primark today faces unprecedented pressure to ensure that the tragedy witnessed in Bangladesh a week ago today never happens again.
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UK move sparks ‘ban killer drones’ call
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26 April 2013
Campaigners are calling on the government to stop using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or “drones”, as Britain has started controlling them from a domestic base.
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Protest targets Primark over Bangladesh workplace disaster
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26 April 2013
As rescuers continue to search for survivors from the collapsed Bangladeshi block where workers made Primark clothes, campaigners will protest outside its flagship store tomorrow in support of victims and their families.
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Campaigners demand action following Bangladesh building collapse
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25 April 2013
As rescuers today dug for survivors after a high rise building in Bangladesh, including garment factories, collapsed killing at least 187 people, campaigners demanded immediate action so that major multinational buyers linked to the factories, such as Primark, Matalan and Mango, are held to account.
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'Ban killer drones' UK alert
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22 April 2013
Campaigners are calling on the government to stop using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or “drones”, as Britain prepares to start controlling them from a domestic base.
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Pressure grows on G4S to end Israeli prison contracts
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22 April 2013
The charity War on Want today welcomed the decision announced by the British private security corporation G4S not to renew contracts in the occupied West Bank as a step forward in the campaign to end the multinational’s complicity with the occupation.
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Activists tell Foot Locker to give Adidas the boot
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22 April 2013
Campaigners will today stage protests outside Foot Locker stores across the UK, Europe and America, demanding it cuts ties with Adidas over the sportswear giant’s failure to pay former workers £1.1 million ($1.8 million) in legally-owed redundancy pay.
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Budget – Osborne’s tax anti-abuse rule “a hollow PR stunt” set to increase tax avoidance
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20 March 2013
Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget speech, Murray Worthy tax justice campaigner at War on Want said:
On the General Anti-Abuse Rule:
“Osborne’s announcement of a new ‘anti-abuse rule’ at the heart of his supposed tax avoidance clampdown is nothing more than a hollow PR stunt. An administrative exercise for HMRC, tinkering around the edges of what is legal, is being dressed up as an assault on tax dodgers. Not only will these plans have no impact on giant corporate tax dodgers, they actually stand to make things worse.”
“By the government’s own figures this new measure will only bring in tens of millions in lost revenue every year, a drop in the ocean in comparison to the billions that could be recovered if this government was actually intent on tackling tax avoidance.”
“Osborne’s decision to let big companies shirk their responsibilities to society while forcing through more spending cuts is morally indefensible.”
On tax havens:
Responding to the announcement that the UK government has secured a deal with the Crown Dependencies to gain access to information on money and accounts held in these secrecy jurisdictions, Murray Worthy continued:
“It is promising that the UK government has finally admitted that the UK’s Crown Dependencies, the Isle of Man and the Channels Islands, are harbouring over a billion pounds of evaded and avoided tax, but the announcement of today’s deal with the government will do nothing to help the world’s poorest people. Rather than just ensuring that the UK government gets its share of the money these islands hide offshore the government should be taking urgent action to close down all the UK’s tax havens around the world to stop the flow of billions of pounds out of developing countries every year.”
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Osborne’s Budget ‘tax sham’ to give a green light to corporate tax avoiders
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20 March 2013
Anti-poverty campaigners today condemned the government’s proposed tax avoidance clampdown to be included in the Budget today as ‘little more than a sham’ that would give a green light to multinational companies to avoid billions of pounds in tax.
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