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Asia Day of Action calls for “Tax Justice for Genuine People’s Recovery!”

By Campaign, Events, Global Inequalities

This press release coincides with the launch of the Asia Days of Action on Tax Justice, and highlights actions being taken by APMDD’s partners in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines.

The statement demands changes and reforms in tax and fiscal systems, asking governments and the UN General Assembly to take action by ending unjust tax burdens on the poor, fairly and sharply taxing the wealth and income of corporations and the elite and ensuring taxes are used to meet people’s basic needs.

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23 September 2023
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Tax Justice Now, towards Ending Inequalities And Building People’s Recovery and Resilience

By Campaign, Global Inequalities

The multiple crises brought to the fore by the pandemic have widened inequalities that had already been present and worsening before the COVID-19 outbreak. Any serious attempt at ensuring peoples’ recovery and addressing inequalities would require bold and decisive actions that strike at the root causes of inequalities and multiple crises.

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23 September 2023
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Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism – Regional Briefing: Asia

By Global Inequalities

This briefing was created by the CSO FfD Mechanism for activists and advocates who are interested in getting involved in or learning more about how global economic governance relates to different sectoral and/or local and national struggles in Asia – including feminist movements, food sovereignty and land rights movements, climate justice activists, youth and student movements, human rights advocates, and more.

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18 Juli 2023
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Global Protest to Fight Inequality 2023

By Campaign, Events, Global Inequalities, India, Uncategorized

On 20 January 2023, the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development and its members participated in the Global Protest to Fight Inequality, an annual event initiated by the Fight Inequality Alliance.

APMDD members in India, Pakistan, Philippines and other parts of Asia staged actions and other activities to draw attention to the impacts of tax and other policies on inequalities everywhere, reiterate the call to “tax the rich,” and to amplify civil society demands for solutions to the multiple crises and policy reforms towards ending inequalities and building a genuine people’s recovery.

The protest featured initiatives by grassroots organisations – including street vendors and hawkers in India, farmers and fisherfolk in Pakistan, street vendors, agricultural workers, women in the informal economy and other sectors in the Philippines – are the results of capacity building, networking and strategising activities conducted in 2021 and 2022, including awareness-raising on wealth tax advocacy. 

Click here to learn about the Global Protest to Fight Inequality 2022

23 Januari 2023
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Ina Na Marjuang

By End Inequalities, Global Inequalities, Indonesia

“Walaupun saya tidak punya keturunan, tapi darah saya harus saya perjuangkan. Ini tanah opung kami.”

Para perempuan Batak Toba maju di depan untuk mempertahankan tanah-tanah adat mereka. Perempuan tani dan para perempuan adat telah menjadi korban paling menderita akibat proyek pembangunan eksploitatif. Meski seringkali diabaikan, suara para perempuan adat yang menuntut keadilan akan terus lantang terdengar dari Tanah Toba.

10 Januari 2023
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Stop Killing Us!: Over 150 days of campaigning to end the needless deaths of sanitation workers

By Campaign, Global Inequalities, India

“Casteism and untouchability still decide the social structure in the larger part of the country. For them development is just a superficial myth.”

Members of Safai Karmachari Andolan – a movement of people engaged in or formerly engaged in manual scavenging that spans across India, have been campaigning every day for over 150 days. The campaign, called “Stop Killing Us” aims to bring attention to the often ignored, under-reported issue of deaths of sanitation workers who regularly die from exposure to noxious gases in sewers and septic tanks. This work is carried out by people who feel they have no economic alternative. SKA is calling for contractors and municipalities to take responsibility, for governments to make use of machinery compulsory for such work, and for proper rehabilitation and support to be provided for people to transition to dignified livelihoods with living wages. Read more here and follow the ongoing campaign updates on Twitter here (#StopKillingUs).

10 Oktober 2022
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Asia Days of Action 2022 – Tax Justice Now for People’s Recovery

By Campaign, Events, Global Inequalities, India

The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, together with its members at the national level across Asia, carried out the Asia Days of Action – “Tax Justice Now for People’s Recovery” from 23 to 24 September 2022 (click here to watch a video summary).

Multisector groups from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan took part in days of action, holding seminars, protest actions, solidarity gatherings and photo actions. The groups stressed the urgency to address policies that severely undermine the capacities of people to prepare for, respond to, survive, recover, and rebuild when crisis or natural disasters strike.

Highlights in India included a workshop bringing together CSOs, domestic workers and migrant workers, a puppet show on unjust tax regimes, poster-making by children, and a ‘Ride for a Fair Tax’ that mobilised domestic workers on bicycle.

In Bangladesh, garment workers protested in front of the National Press Club, demanding an end to VAT.

In Pakistan, the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum organised a rally against injustices in the tax system in Pakistan, and a seminar was held to discuss the need for taxes to work for ordinary people and help deliver public services and much needed relief in light of the floods that struck Pakistan that month.

Click here to read the press release

Click here to watch a video of the Asia Days of Action for Tax Justice 2021

26 September 2022
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