Fifth Fiscal Justice & Human Rights Week

 Multilateralism is in crisis, no doubt about it. We face a rising tide of international violence, rearmament strategies and an open U.S. opposition to the Tax Convention, it is easy to get carried away by the atmosphere of chaos and despair. However, international institutions and civil society have demonstrated parsimony and acuity in denouncing and confronting the blows to democracy and human rights. They have become a light of hope.

In the Fifth edition of the Week for Fiscal Justice and Human Rights we highlighted the processes that illuminate the path towards an effective change of course, leading the international system to adapt and face new challenges, such as rearmament and the rapid erosion of democracies, and thus tackle systemic issues that require enormous political will, such as climate change, the rights of women and sexual dissidences, and the elimination of extreme poverty around the world.

The Fifth edition of the Week follows the Initiative’s participation in the FfD4 (Finance for Development) Conference; the handover of the ad-hoc presidency of the PT-LAC, assumed by Brazil, and the arrival of a new OAS General Secretariat. From July 22 to 24, we talked about what is happening in the world and listened to the expert voices that believe that there is not only hope, but also a robust international institutional framework capable of raising the transformations that the world needs, when it needs them most.