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Who pays campaign guide Thirty-two million of us shop in a supermarket every week, making UK supermarkets extremely powerful – both in our lives and in the lives of the people that produce the food and clothes we buy. As supermarkets continue to lower prices, who pays the real cost? By ActionAid	[30/06/2008]	424 kb	PDF
Taxing Solutions report ActionAid calls for tightened corporate tax laws as ‘Business Call to Action’ launched. By ActionAid	[06/05/2008]	192 kb	PDF
Headline figures for Taxation solutions report Headline figures for Taxation solutions report. By ActionAid	[06/05/2008]	70 kb	DOC
Expectation Gap Methodology for Taxation solutions report Expectation Gap Methodology for Taxation solutions report. By ActionAid	[06/05/2008]	290 kb	PDF
Who pays? The real cost of cheap school uniforms Cheap school uniforms sold in major UK supermarkets are being produced by women workers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka earning as little as five pence per hour and working over 70 hours per week. By ActionAid	[30/08/2007]	1670 kb	PDF
Vedanta cares? - Busting the myths about Vedanta's operation in Lanjigarh, India Indigenous people have lived in the lush forests of Niyamgiri mountain, Orissa, India, for generations. Now, local tribal families are living in fear for their future due to the arrival of a combined bauxite mining and alumina refinery project in the heart of their ancestral domain by an Indian subsidiary of the UK mining and metals company, Vedanta Resources plc. By ActionAid	[01/08/2007]	388 kb	PDF
Who pays? - How British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty Report looking in detail at the cases of some of the poorest workers in supermarket supply chains in Costa Rica, India and Bangladesh, showing how supermarket pressure means that they are being denied even their most basic rights. By Martin Hearson and Dominic Eagleton	[24/04/2007]	1810 kb	PDF
Gold Rush: The impact of gold mining on poor people in Obuasi in Ghana Report highlighting how poor communities in Obuasi in Ghana are suffering serious environmental pollution and social problems as a result of gold mining by a subsidiary of the UK-based mining giant Anglo American. By ActionAid	[04/10/2006]	1653 kb	PDF
Tea break: a crisis brewing in India Report highlighting the Indian tea crisis and exposing the problems facing thousands of workers that grow and pick the tea we drink everyday. By Sam Goddard, ActionAid	[01/05/2005]	977 kb	PDF
Rotten Fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price Breifing highlighting the appalling working conditions of thousands of women workers in South Africa who grow fruit that ends up on Tesco's shelves. By Alex Wijeratna, ActionAid	[01/03/2005]	759 kb	PDF