PRINCIPLES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN FISCAL POLICY
A collaborative civil society initiative to put human rights and social justice at the center of tax and public spending policies
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CESCR issues historic statement on taxation and human rights
The Initiative and its member organizations had requested this statement a year ago and welcome the Committee’s commitment to strengthening tax justice.
We published a document on the UNTC protocols
The parties to the future Convention should have the flexibility to adopt protocols on the issues they deem most appropriate, as long as they are a way of implementing the main commitments of the Convention.
“We are living through a process to rewrite international financial rules with a view to global equality.” Olivia Minatta
CESR’s lawyer comments on the international discussion to move the international taxation talks from the OECD to the UN. According to several countries in the Global South, the “Inclusive Framework on BEPS” does not follow an inclusive process and is ineffective in meeting Global Human Rights and environmental commitments.
WHAT IS THE INITIATIVE
The Initiative for Human Rights Principles in Fiscal Policy seeks to develop and promote a compendium of Principles and Guidelines that summarize the human rights standards applicable to fiscal policy.
The compendium translates general human rights standards into more concrete guidelines that are easy to implement and are based on a rigorous analysis of different sources. In addition to generating the principles and guidelines document, the project aims to encourage the use and implementation of The Principles and Guidelines by regional, national and local actors.
RESOURCES
Protocols to the United Nations Framework Convention on Tax Cooperation
Download PDF This paper summarizes the research conducted by the Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy on the protocols that will complement...
Human Rights’ organizations and experts welcome advances towards a United Nations Tax Convention and stress their importance to realize human rights
Download PDF In a context of intersecting crises and increasing inequalities, it is urgent to reform the current international tax architecture to...
Monetary Policy and Principles for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy
Download PDF Although the impacts of monetary policy on human rights may be seen as more indirect than those of other macroeconomic policies, such...
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