David Archer

Please join us for a collective global webinar on Climate and Debt: Interconnected Crises and Responses - on 12th June - organised with key climate justice and debt justice movements. Translation into French and Spanish will be available. You can register for the webinar here: lnkd.in/eCHJXE_7

Climate and Debt: Interconnected Crises and Responses | DEAL Join us for an online conversation on how the climate and debt crises are deeply connected–and what we can do about it

EVENT | Climate and Debt: Interconnected Crises and Responses

Join @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and more for a conversation on how the climate and debt crises are deeply connected - and what we can do about it.

📅 Thurs, June 12, 2025
⏰ 12PM - 1:30PM (BST)

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‘We had all this energy’: the landmark gathering of women that unnerved the Chinese government In 1995, 30,000 women from all over the world gathered near Beijing for what became a seminal moment in the women’s rights movement. Some of those who were there reflect on what has been achieved sinc...

On the eve of #CSW69 this extended article has important reflections on the Beijing Declaration, 30 years on, including from former ActionAid colleague Everjoice Win www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Why 2025 could be a turning point in Africa's debt emergency | African Arguments A clear plan that would move power over debt from colonial institutions to a more representative body is on the table; Africa must back it.

A powerful blog by ActionAid's Secretary General on the eve of the African Union Heads of State calling for debt cancellation and a transformation of the colonial international financial architecture - recognising that Africa is owed much more than it owes! africanarguments.org/2025/02/why-...

A new study published in the Lancet finds that life expectancy in Gaza dropped by nearly half, from 75.5 years to 40.6 years, during the first twelve months of the genocide. Apocalyptic.

Pope, Lula, Sanchez, top economists to call for taxes to protect democracy | Tax Justice Network The Vatican will host an event this Thursday (13 February) together with the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), where Pope Francis, along with current ...

⚡This Thursday, Pope Francis, world leaders & top economists unite at the Vatican to push for bold tax reform on billionaires & big corporations. It's time for a fair system that funds people, not just the powerful! ICRICT #TaxTheSuperRich #TaxThePower #TaxJustice

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Like others in the Global North, the EU has overshot its fair share of the global carbon budget. In other words, they've used up others' share and let them pay the price, literally. (1/5)

Who Owes Who? As we enter 2025, 54 countries are in debt crisis, forced to cut their spending on basic public services and climate action in order to pay external debts. Last year, lower income countries between th...

Look out for ActionAid's new report: ‘Who Owes Who' looking at external debt, climate debt & reparations in this Jubilee year. The colonial injustices between countries should spark anger & strategic action. #WhoOwesWho #FFD4 #DebtJubilee #CancelDebt #YearOfReparations actionaid.org/publications...

➡️ #FfD4 and #COP30 will be critical moments where CSOs, activists, and decision-makers can jointly work towards an end to extractive and neocolonial policies and governance. (4/5)

Anti-Racism in Education Financing and Practice - NORRAG - The United Nations International Day of Education on 24th January 2025 is an opportunity for us to look critically at what is required to transform public education systems globally. This blogpost is ...

"The United Nations #InternationalDayOfEducation on 24th January 2025 is an opportunity for us to look critically at what is required to transform public #education systems globally." - @davidarcheraa.bsky.social, Head of Programmes, ActionAid

Read more: www.norrag.org/anti-racism-...

Anti-Racism in Education Financing and Practice - NORRAG - The United Nations International Day of Education on 24th January 2025 is an opportunity for us to look critically at what is required to transform public education systems globally. This blogpost is ...

My new blog on the eve of UN Education Day. We urgently need to address anti-racism in both education financing and education practice www.norrag.org/anti-racism-...

In 2025 DEBT will be a pivotal issue. I am working on crunching / analysing datasets on external debt, climate debt / atmospheric apropriation, failed aid promises, illicit financial flows, reparations etc - to get a big picture of Who Owes Who? I would welcome suggestions for sources / arguments!

Please add me ... it's great to see the growing numbers of people joining!

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents.

It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years.

There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

It's been a powerful week at the Social Justice Leadership Programme in TCDC, Arusha, Tanzania. In these volatile times we all have something new to learn about community organising and building rooted campaigns.

ICJ climate change hearings - ActionAid USA News ActionAid Vanuatu's country manager Flora Vano will be testifying remotely from Vanuatu to the ICJ hearing on 3 December. Before giving her testimony, she

"World leaders hear our plea. This isn't fiction; it's our daily reality. Stop fossil fuel extraction & take responsibility for the pollution." - ActionAid Vanuatu's Flora Vano, ahead of her testimony at the International Court Of Justice #ClimateChange hearing👇 www.actionaidusa.org/news/icj-cli...

The Vicious Cycle The countries that are most vulnerable to the climate crisis are also facing a debt crisis – and the need to service external debt in foreign currency has become a major accelerator of the climate cri...

This ActionAid briefing on links btw the debt crisis & the climate crisis is ever more relevant. In 2025 we need a massive campaign that links the unpaid climate debts of the Global North to cancellation of the unpayable but brutally enforced debts of the Global South actionaid.org/publications...

Our reaction to the latest draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance Reacting to the latest draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance

Colleagues from ActionAid & many allies in the climate justice movement are deeply disappointed at the outcomes on finance from #COP29 in #Baku. Now, we must fight for an overhaul of the global financing architecture at #FFD4 in Seville & on to #COP30 in Belem, Brazil actionaid.org/news/2024/ou...

So a reminder:

It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom.

It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president.

It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child.

For the record.

Not a single person has been put on trial for killing 72 people at Grenfell.

But they can lock up non-violent protestors for 21 years, because they are a 'danger'.

The question is - raising tax on whom? Wealth tax, anyone? @patmillsuk.bsky.social

Dear Ministers of Finance - This is how you can transform the financing of Education! The real power over decisions on the financing of education tends to lie with Ministers of Finance more than Ministers of Education.

Dear Ministers of Finance - this is how you can transform the fnancing of education - see this collective letter signed on to by 15 organisations and available in 5 languages actionaid.org/publications...

A one minute summary from the UNESCO Global Education Meeting in Fortaleza Brazil where we fought to show the links between tax justice and education justice ... which really should be self-evident !

YouTube video by Tax Justice Network Tax Justice Minute: David Archer, ActionAid reports from the Global Education Meeting in Brazil.

⚡New Tax Justice Minute is out! David Archer from
ActionAid shares insights directly from the Global Education Meeting in Brazil.
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YouTube video by Tax Justice Network Tax Justice Minute: Carolina Rodrigues Finette highlights our new report on tax and education.

Out now, in this latest episode of the #TaxJusticeMinute. Carolina Rodrigues Finette highlights our new report on tax and education. A progressive tax system can protect the rights of millions of children around the world to an #education.
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You had a hunch climate change impacts would increase economic inequalities? You were right!
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Our reaction to the latest draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance Reacting to the latest draft text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance

Colleagues from ActionAid & many allies in the climate justice movement are deeply disappointed at the outcomes on finance from #COP29 in #Baku. Now, we must fight for an overhaul of the global financing architecture at #FFD4 in Seville & on to #COP30 in Belem, Brazil actionaid.org/news/2024/ou...

🚨What is the #StateOfTaxJustice in 2024?

Our latest report is out tomorrow, revealing the staggering scale of tax abuse by multinationals & the wealthy. This year’s report lands as global leaders debate a #UNTaxConvention, its findings couldn’t be more urgent. Find out more: www.taxjustice.net

Photo of Thomas Sankara Text: IN MEMORY OF THOMAS SANKARA on the 36th anniversary of Sankara's assassination We must create a united front against debt." #DebtForClimate #CancelTheDebt

“WE MUST CREATE A UNITED FRONT AGAINST DEBT”. #ThomasSankara called for such unity in the months before his assassination (15th of October, 1987)—not only between indebted Global South nations but also between exploited workers of the North and South.
#DebtForClimate
#HonorSankara

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Joining the Dots - ActionAid report on Financing for Development The current international financing architecture is inadequate to address the multiple, intersecting crises that disproportionately impact those with the least power

ActionAid's new report calling for a radical overhaul of the international financial architecture. The era of colonial institutions like the IMF and World Bank must be ended.
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