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Whistle blowing activists gathered outside the UK Treasury and in other European capitals on 5 November, to support the whistle-blowers who exposed the LuxLeaks tax scandal a year ago and to demand an end to secrecy around multinationals’ taxes.

With a month to go before the COP 21 climate summit in Paris, Christian Aid has welcomed today’s publication of the UN’s aggregation report, summarising country actions that will make up the global deal.

Poor countries which are unable to collect enough tax to fund public services risk becoming ‘failing states’, Christian Aid Chair Dr Rowan Williams warned at a tax debate organised by the Confederation of British Industry.

Christian Aid has joined calls for a commission set up under the Geneva Conventions to investigate the US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz.