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A tax on texting? Getting creative with funding human rights in Africa
For too long, the African Union and its human rights bodies have depended on foreign aid. If the Union implements a radical new financing tax on airline tickets, texts and hotel stays, however, its human rights work might finally become self-sufficient. International aid for human rights is often helpful, but it is also too seasonal, insufficient and unsustainable. In some cases, moreover, it can actually be detrimental. What most countries in the global South need is fair trade, not aid.
Focusing on women and transgenders in LGBT rights
Nepal is the most open country in South Asia for LGBT rights, but even here, patriarchal biases exclude women and transgenders. Can foreign funding change this? Nepal is one of the most open countries in Asia for LGBT rights, with a robust movement for sexual rights. But even though gay rights have received widespread support, lesbians and the transgender community have been largely marginalised.
Modi government cracks down on green NGOs
Governments worldwide are suppressing local activism by imposing curbs on foreign funding to civil society. Research shows that civil society is often dependent on this international aid, and that in the most extreme cases, NGOs have been forced by this crackdown to abandon their work. India is no stranger to cracking down on foreign funding to civil society. Now, the new government has trained its guns on environmental activists.
Africa/Global - Following the Money
opinion "As an important tool in our fight against corruption, tax evasion, terrorist financing and money laundering, we will advance the effective implementation of the international standards on transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons and legal arrangements, including the availability of information in the domestic and crossborder context." - G20 Summit Communiqué, Hamburg, July 8, 2017 The issue was not high profile in Hamburg, the wording was generic, and implementation, as...
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