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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.
Tax cooperation: Why is what’s happening at the UN General Assembly historic?
As every year, since September, the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for its 78th session. In these weeks, the speeches of Latin American leaders have made headlines, but amidst...
Why should social movements be at the center of the new Latin American Tax Cooperation?
The Regional Platform for Tax Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, the main outcome of the First Ministerial Summit for Inclusive, Sustainable, and Equitable Global Taxation, was...
Join the Third Week for Tax Justice and Human Rights
From July 3-7, civil society organizations, experts, activists and social movements will gather to discuss regional tax cooperation, the feminist tax agenda, sovereign debt and other key issues for tax justice and human rights.
Academia and civil society unite in Bogota to rethink global taxation
During the first week of May, a meeting is taking place in which organizations and experts will build proposals with a view to the First Latin American and Caribbean Summit for a global, inclusive and sustainable taxation, to be held in July in Cartagena.
We will have a public hearing on the links between fiscal policy and human rights at the IACHR: why is it important?
This Monday, March 6 at 2:15 pm Los Angeles time, our Initiative will participate in the 186th Session of the Commission, requesting a series of crucial measures to maintain the connections between these two issues in the region.
2022, a prosperous year for tax justice
Our Initiative exists when the disconnection between Human Rights and Tax Policy is critical, with multiple regressive consequences that could have a worsening effect in contexts of economic...