Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this
“Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan.
(Mohammed Abdelmoneim Hashim Mohammed
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21 January 2021
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“Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan.
Kimalee Phillip is a Grenadian feminist and labour human rights activist and organizer who is part of the Caribbean Solidarity Network.
2021 is upon us. Arundhati Roy invited us to consider the pandemic as a portal, a portal through which we decide what ideas, patterns and baggage we want to take with us to the other side. Will we choose to carry with us old ways of being and seeing the world that no longer serve us, or are we ready to courageously make the leap, lighter and with more spaciousness to embrace something different? It worries to think that one of the things we may carry with us through this portal, into 2021, are these outdated, worn-out, old boys’ type of partisan politics that continue to insist that the people are the laughing stock and that those elected are untouchable.
Daily Monitor
Monday December 21 2020
For African countries, the impact of changes in US administrations are not always self-evident. However, as with other developing countries, there are prospects of Africa benefitting from renewed multilateralism, not only in climate and health issues such as responding to global pandemics, but also on the question of illicit financial flows, through reopened debate on fairer taxation of big business and the rich at a global level. This will require a shift from the instrumentalisation of foreign aid for securitisation purposes, a fundamental re-think of globalisation and development, and political leadership.
Domestic public resources are central to development as recognised by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda – resulting from an international conference held in the Ethiopian capital in 2015.
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