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Using Human Rights Law to End Social & Economic Injustice
💡 ¿Qué significa el “financiamiento innovador” en #Educación, qué muestra la evidencia y qué implica para el derecho a la educación? Participa en nuestra serie de tres webinarios sobre instrumentos clave, consensos regionales y perspectivas críticas. 🌎
💡 What does ‘innovative finance' mean in #Education, what does the evidence show and what does it imply for the right to education? Join our three-part webinar series on key instruments, regional consensus-building and critical perspectives. 🌍
As negotiations on the #UNTaxConvention move from political objectives to treaty text, legal precision will shape what the Convention can achieve. www.linkedin.com/posts/giescr...
Draft Article 21 and the Challenge of Pre-Existing Tax Agreements: The Urgent Case for International Law Expertise in the UN Tax Convention | Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
As negotiations on the #UNTaxConvention move from political objectives to treaty text, legal precision will shape what the Convention can achieve. Our latest analysis examines Draft Article 21, its i...
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Public trust depends on what people can verify. 🇳🇬📊 When tax reform is discussed in broad terms, it can be difficult for citizens to know what should change, who is responsible and how progress will be measured. #PayTax4Wetin?
📚 ¿Qué es el financiamiento innovador en #Educación? ¿Qué mecanismos se proponen? ¿Qué dice la evidencia? ¿Qué preguntas debemos plantear desde América Latina y el Caribe hacia el mundo?
📚 What does innovative finance in #Education mean? Which mechanisms are being proposed? What does the evidence tell us? What questions should we be asking from Latin America and the Caribbean to the world?
A fair tax system should protect people from carrying an unfair share of the tax burden, especially as economic hardship shapes public debate ahead of the 2027 election. ⚖️🇳🇬
Less than 5 cents of a dollar. That’s what Kenya budgeted per learner, per school day, for primary school meals in FY2026/2027. 🇰🇪 As implementation unfolds and the next budget takes shape, we look at the gaps that need to be addressed. 🔎📊 www.linkedin.com/pulse/less-t...
Less Than 5 Cents a Day to Feed a Primary School Learner in Kenya
Less than 5 cents of a dollar. 6 Kenyan shillings.
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We’re posing a simple question: if new tax revenue is being raised, what should it deliver for people? 🇳🇬🔎 Tax reform should be something people can understand, track and hold to account. Scroll down to see what that means in practice. 💰📊 #PayTax4Wetin
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we honour the resilience, leadership and collective strength of Indigenous Peoples fighting to defend their lands, cultures and ability to determine their own futures. 🌿 #IndigenousPeoplesDay
En el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas, reconocemos la resiliencia, el liderazgo y la fuerza de los pueblos indígenas que luchan por defender sus tierras, culturas y capacidad de decidir sobre su propio futuro. 🌿
During negotiations on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, GI-ESCR called for meaningful multistakeholder participation to be expressly recognised in the Convention. 🌍🏛️ youtu.be/HGCnDWe4qJA
Civil Society Participation in the UN Tax Convention: GI-ESCR Intervention
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During the 5th Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation, Ezequiel Steuermann, our Programme Officer on Economic Justice & Climate Finance, delivered this intervention. 📺 Watch: youtu.be/pE7gcASiFBc
Taxing Extreme Wealth: GI-ESCR Intervention at the UN Tax Convention Negotiations
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Day 2 of the #UNTaxConvention negotiations went to the heart of what this process is meant to change: who gets to tax cross-border wealth, whether the richest individuals face effective taxation and how States confront practices that drain public revenue. ⚖
On 3 August, Public Services International GI-ESCR convened a roundtable at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation offices in New York to examine the institutional choices that will govern the future UN tax cooperation framework.
The 5th session of negotiations for a #UNTaxConvention opened with a dispute over the participation of the prestigious Kenya Human Rights Commission. Türkiye, China and Bangladesh opposed its participation under false claims, but an overwhelming majority rejected the attempt.
Nigeria is implementing new tax policies, and people are asking a clear question: PayTax4Wetin? 🇳🇬💬
What is #PayTax4Wetin? 🇳🇬 PayTax4Wetin? is a national campaign calling for: 🔹 Fair implementation of Nigeria’s new tax laws 🔹 Transparent and accountable use of revenue 🔹 Stronger funding for public services
En América Latina, la negociación de la Convención Marco de la ONU sobre Cooperación Tributaria Internacional puede fortalecer las herramientas de los Estados para enfrentar el abuso fiscal, ampliar su espacio fiscal y sostener servicios públicos universales y de calidad. 🏛️
Public services are not abstract. They shape how people move, learn, work, access care and build their lives. When those services are weak, daily life becomes more expensive and harder than it should be. People are left to cover privately what public resources should provide. 🇳🇬
On 23 July, we’re convening an in-person dialogue in Abuja on Nigeria’s new tax reforms and how new revenue can fund services people can see, use and track. 🇳🇬 Civil society and decision-makers will ask what tax reform should deliver. 🏛️💬 #PayTax4Wetin
At the 34th #IAFFE Annual Conference, our Executive Director, Camila Barretto Maia, will join fellow experts for a conversation on the links between feminist economics, #HumanRights and global tax governance. 🌍
Tax justice, feminist economics, international law, human rights and care will all be part of the conversations our Executive Director, Camila Barretto Maia, is contributing to at the 34th #IAFFE Conference. 🗣️
¡Acompáñanos en la Sexta Semana por la Justicia Fiscal y los Derechos Humanos! Hablaremos de: ✅ Resolución 2/26 de la CIDH ✅ Convención Tributaria de la ONU ✅ Incentivos a industrias extractivas ✅ Derechos de pueblos indígenas ✅ Servicios públicos tinyurl.com/3ku3nx86
Sexta Semana por la Justicia Fiscal - Iniciativa por los Derechos Humanos en la Politica Fiscal
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¡Ya casi está aquí la Sexta Semana por la Justicia Fiscal y los Derechos Humanos! 📢⚖️ 💰 Impuestos justos 🌍 Justicia climática ⚖️ Derechos humanos 🏛️Servicios públicos ¡Súmate al debate! tinyurl.com/3ku3nx86
Sexta Semana por la Justicia Fiscal - Iniciativa por los Derechos Humanos en la Politica Fiscal
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At the launch of our 'Prioritising People in Fiscal Policy' series, participants examined how austerity, debt pressures, fiscal consolidation and underinvestment affect access to public #Health and #Education in Kenya and Ghana. 📚🏥 📺 Watch the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-hj...
Multi-Country Study and Legal Brief Launch
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🚪 Underfunded public systems create space for private provision to expand. That can make health and education harder to access for the people who rely most on #PublicServices.
🌍 On #PublicServicesDay, we reaffirm that health, education and other public services must be publicly financed, of quality, accessible and grounded in #HumanRights.
