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Center for Economic and Social Rights
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We are an international organization harnessing the power of human rights. Our goal: To build an economy that works for people & the planet.
🔎 For #16Days, we’re sharing tools that challenge the systems enabling gender-based violence.

Our new #KeyConcepts primer on #GenderJustice and macroeconomic policies offers insights you can use to push for rights-based alternatives.

➡️ Read: bit.ly/keyconceptsg...
November 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🔎 Looking for tools to strengthen your advocacy?

Our new #KeyConcepts primer on #GenderJustice and macroeconomic policies helps you unpack how economic decisions affect women and gender-diverse people, and what rights-based alternatives look like.

➡️ Read: bit.ly/keyconceptsg...
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"We believe it is timely for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to consider adopting a thematic resolution that systematizes existing human rights standards on fiscal policy and promotes their implementation", @emimamberti.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The final 3 days of negotiations in Nairobi exposed the political choices behind the new #UNTaxConvention.

Talks centered on capacity building, dispute prevention and resolution. Here’s a summary of what went on this week, and what it means for tax justice. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
📆 Next Tuesday, join our Director of Program @drmariannaleite.bsky.social and allies in #Geneva as they examine what States and philanthropic donors must do differently to advance rights-centered development.

✏️ Register at bit.ly/47X6R5m
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Day 5 of the #UNTaxConvention focused on capacity building. Nearly all States agreed: support must be embedded in the convention, not tacked on. A standalone article is necessary, but it must also be woven throughout the text.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Day 4 of the #UNTaxConvention discussions in #Nairobi focused on dispute resolution (Art. 10), illicit financial flows (IFFs), and capacity building. Here are the key developments from the negotiations ⤵️🧵
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Will you be in 🇿🇦 #Johannesburg next week?

Join us at the launch of "G20 at a crossroads", our new collective report with @neweconomics.bsky.social, @ips-dc.org, #IEJ & #Transforma

🗓️ 18 Nov
📍CIVICUS, 25 Owl St, JHB
📝 Register at: ow.ly/jVbh50XqXL6
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🌍 Day 3 of the #UNTaxConvention negotiating sessions in #Nairobi focused on harmful tax practices (Art 8), sustainable development (Art 9), and dispute resolution (Art 10). A quick recap below ⤵️

📷: CSOs (including @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social ) & UN delegates via @latindadd.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🌍 Day 2 of the #UNTaxConvention negotiations in Nairobi ended with slow progress, growing contradictions, and a widening gap between stated commitments and real ambition. Here’s a quick summary of where things stand. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🌍 The 3rd session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the #UNTaxConvention began today in Nairobi. Delegates returned to the table to shape fairer global tax rules. It was a packed first day. Here’s a quick thread for those following the talks. 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Our new joint report with @neweconomics.bsky.social, @ips-dc.org, #IEJ, & #Transforma shows what the #G20 must do to shift course and advance toward a #RightsBasedEconomy

🔎 Read here: bit.ly/47TT8fF
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ahead of #COP30, join us to explore how debt, tax & fiscal policies shape the flow of climate finance — and what it will take to make it just.

🗓 3 Nov | 9:30 a.m. ET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/decodingclimatecop

#ClimateJustice #RightsBasedEconomy #COP30 @larutadelclima.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
FRI, OCT 17 • 3:30 ET

Scrutinizing the IMF role on debt. How advice, conditionalities, and DSAs shape recoveries – and how to center rights, gender justice, and climate justice.

Join: bit.ly/imfroledebt
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
WED, OCT 15 • 11:00 ET

Extreme wealth – how much is too much? Exploring an “extreme wealth line” to spur action on inequality.

Join: bit.ly/extreme_wealth
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TUE, OCT 14 • 4:30 ET

From Seville to the CSPF: reimagining IMF governance for a multilateralism fit for purpose. Building on FfD4 to center rights, gender, and climate justice.

Join: bit.ly/sevilletocspf
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TUE, OCT 14 • 9:00 ET

Cross-institutional collaboration in times of multilateral fragmentation. How can IMF-UN cooperation uphold human rights in macroeconomic policy?

Join: bit.ly/imfun
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🌍 As the IMF and the World Bank meet in #WashingtonDC for the Annual Meetings, debates on debt, tax, and climate finance take center stage.

@cesr.bsky.social and allies will push for rights-based reforms to the global financial architecture. Details below ⤵️

#CSPF2025
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
We’re in Paris at @icrict.bsky.social’s conversation on Taxation, inequality and democracy in Latin America with Magdalena Sepúlveda, José Antonio Ocampo, Ricardo Martner and Martín Guzmán

#TaxThePower
October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Join us tomorrow in Addis Ababa 🌍

➡️ African women leaders will spotlight solutions and demands for a just, gender-responsive climate future ahead of #AfricaClimateSummit2

Register: bit.ly/4g6G8H2
September 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We’re in 🇬🇭 #Accra participating in #AfCoDDV, standing with movements demanding an end to a system that extracts from the many to enrich the few.

⤵️ Attending the conference? Join our two side sessions with @amwaafrika.bsky.social, FEMNET, Christian Aid and the Pan African Lawyer's Union
August 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
💸 Billions promised for climate action are trapped in debt and corporate interests.

Our new guide #DecodingClimateFinance (by @cesr.bsky.social & @larutadelclima.bsky.social) gives activists, researchers and advocates tools to demand change.

🔎 Read and share: bit.ly/decodingclim...
August 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
⤵️ Starting in a few minutes!
Join us and #OHCHR: bit.ly/intersecting_
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📅 The first two sessions of #UNTaxConvention negotiations just wrapped up in New York 🗽

🧵From disputes and data to power imbalances and next steps, here’s what happened on the final day and what we learned from two intense weeks of talks ⤵️
August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🧵 #UNTaxConvention Negotiations – Day 9 (14 Aug)

Today’s session focused on Workstream III and Protocol II on the prevention and resolution of tax disputes. Chairs highlighted key problems in the current system, especially transfer pricing, and stressed the need to improve tax certainty ⤵️
August 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM