Blog: G20
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G-8 / EU: “A global financial transaction tax, a human rights imperative now more than ever”
As European Union Finance Ministers meet on 15 May to coincide with the G-8 Summit in Camp David, a group of United Nations independent experts urged the EU to take the lead in promoting the adoption of a global financial transaction tax to offset the costs of...
This blog is from Sarah Anderson, IPS Global Economy Project Director. Originally posted on the Huffington Post.
The 99 percent and the 0.001 percent agree on something, but the Obama administration is holding out.
The world's second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the latest global figure to come out in support of the Robin Hood Tax campaign.
Writing in Saturday’s Guardian, he urged G20 leaders to get behind Sarkozy and ‘introduce a tax on financial transactions to help low-income countries hit by the economic crisis and to protect poor people from climate change’.
He said that a failure to reach global agreement should not be an excuse for leaders not to...
G20 leaders are meeting in Seoul and sorting out the financial sector is on the agenda. The Robin Hood Tax campaign is part of a global movement representing over 200 million people calling on leaders to listen to their people rather than the banks, and tax financial transactions fairly.
This call out has been covered by media across the world and in the UK ...
