Notes from Archie Law, CEO of ActionAid Australia
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It’s hard to believe some supermarkets still source their products from factories that underpay their workers and subject them to horrifying working conditions.
Mercy (not pictured), is one of 500,000 women processing cashew nuts for a living in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India. These women often suffer from dermatitis, blistering and skin discolouration from shelling nuts.
“I get headaches; I get dizziness and vomiting from breathing in the smoke” says Mercy
Tags: actionaid, Exploitation, India, social justice, women's rights
Whilst banks around the world are back in the black and back to paying massive bonuses to their executives, millions of poor people around the world are reeling from the global financial crisis which has been caused by their greed.
ActionAid is supporting the call for a tiny tax on the bankers, a “Robin Hood Tax” that takes from the rich to give to the poor. A .05% tax on global financial transactions by banks and other financial institutions like hedge funds would raise billions to assist people affected by climate change and extreme poverty. In Australia we all pay a GST of 10% on practically everything we buy, so why shouldn’t the banks be paying a tax on their transactions?
Tags: actionaid, climate change, robin hood tax
