Irene Ovonji-Odida

Irene Ovonji-Odida (born 1964)is a Ugandan lawyer, politician, and women's rights activist. A member of the Uganda Law Reform Commission, she contributed to the writing of the 1995 Ugandan Constitution and helped to shape the East African Community. She has worked for various charities including ActionAid and carried out election monitoring in Uganda and Tanzania. She was an elected member of the East African Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2006.

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• many of the continent’s citizens believed that the system was not broken, but rather built that way. With an abundance of minerals, natural resources, land and water
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• Illicit financial flows remain a chronic problem for both developed and developing countries.
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• Billions are lost to tax evasion and corruption
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• FACTI discovered that $1.6 trillion, which is 2.7% global Gross Domestic Product, was lost in money laundering by criminals; $500-600 billion lost to tax havens by corporations and PEPS while $20-40 billion was lost to bribes to public officials in developing countries, and $7 trillion private wealth hidden by banking secrecy in advanced countries
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