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How Data Is Helping in the Struggle for the Right to Education in South Africa

CESR's Allison Corkery writes in Open Society Foundations Voices blog about using OPERA tool with Legal Resources Centre to identify indicators and analyze data for tracking implementation on South African education rights case.

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Philip Alston: Tax as a human rights issue

Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights and former CESR board chair, addresses the International Strategy Meeting 'Advancing Tax Justice Through Human Rights' in Lima, Peru, 29 April 2015.

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"OPERA-tionalizing" rights in Scotland's new social security law

How can human rights advocacy help design policies that tackle economic inequality and social exclusion? 
 
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Agenda 2030: repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results?

Agenda 2030 promised a more just future for all people but two years later, familiar dysfunctions have returned to the discourse of global development. 

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Fighting fiscal injustice and human rights risks across the Andean Region

Input from Andean region organizations and experts suggests potential civil society actions aimed at achieving progressive structural tax and spending reforms.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Fiscal Policy for Human Rights & Equality: Andean region

Civil society representatives from across the Andean region reflect on the importance of bringing human rights to bear in tax policy.

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Webinario: Argumentos de política fiscal para la exigibilidad de derechos sociales

Invitación: Webinario sobre la política fiscal y los derechos sociales organizado por ACIJ, Fundar y CESR el 7 de marzo.

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La lucha contra la desigualdad: el potencial de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible

A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on economic inequality and human rights by CESR's Kate Donald.

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As UN criticizes Switzerland, pressure mounts over human rights impacts of tax havens

Press release: Switzerland has received stern recommendations from the UN’s women’s rights treaty-monitoring body over the impacts of its role as a tax haven.

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USA: Time for renewed vigilance for equality and human rights

CESR Statement: The election of Donald Trump as US president obegs sober reflection on the implications his victory has for human rights in the US and internationally.

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CESR Contributes Proposals for Sharing Economic Benefits ahead of HLPF

CESR contributed to a background paper exploring how economic policy should be transformed to achieve the SDGs and a just recovery from COVID-19, including through greater distributional justice to reduce inequalities.

CESR's Kate Donald Discusses Tax Biases Against Women and the Global South

"Taxation for Redistributive Justice: Solutions for Women, People and Planet" discussed tax policy biases that negatively impact women and other disadvantaged groups, as well as countries of the Global South.

CESR Joins Judicial Action Against Devastating Brazilian Spending Freeze
CESR is supporting a coalition of 192 Brazilian civil society organizations and social justice groups as they file a judicial action against Brazil’s expenditure cap, which has had grievous effects on the wellbeing of many of Brazil’s citizens, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.  
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