'Multinationals dodgy tax dealings stripping African women of their rights', 10 Jun 2015:…[T]he…illicit financial flows (IFF) report commissioned by the UN and the African Union suggests that commercial firms are responsible for…Africa [losing] at least $1 trillion over the last 50 years…[through] tax avoidance...“Women lose out the most,” Patita Tingoi of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) said…explaining that when governments do not collect these taxes, they cut their national budgets. An example is…primary education: when it is not free…girls get…left behind. This observation was reiterated by Nebila Abdulmelik of…FEMNET…who said…“States…cut…spending on social services which…disproportionately affect[s]…and increase[s] the burden of care on women and girls,”… “…[W]orkers…operate in low-paying, unsafe and insecure working conditions with rampant human rights violations—which disproportionately affect women,” she said…For these reasons, AWID has joined forces with other women’s rights groups who are pushing for a concrete proposal for reforms to international financial and trade systems so that they support the achievement of global sustainable development goals…[refers to Associated British Foods and SABMiller]