Did you ever wonder:
- Why taxation is a feminist issue?
- How can progressive fiscal policies help correct gender inequalities and how could regressive fiscal policies exacerbate those inequalities?
- How can taxation help raise public revenues to finance the fulfillment of human rights, including women's rights?
- What are the entry points for advocacy on tax justice at the international level?
- Find out more and join us on Tuesday, June 16th from 10:00 am EST to 12:00 pm EST for a webinar on tax justice...because it's a feminist issue!
AWID, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), and the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) will provide the opportunity for feminist activists and women's rights advocates, including AWID members, partners and allies to join a discussion on how to ensure fiscal policies are conducive to achieving women's rights and social justice.
Join us and register for the webinar here! Registration deadline is June 15th, 2015. Access to the session will be given on a first come first served basis.
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Please note: This webinar will be held in English.
If you have any questions please email us at membership@awid.org
More about the panelists:
| Attiya Waris, Tax Justice Network - Africa, Nigeria
Attiya is Senior Lecturer in the Commercial Law Department at the University of Nairobi and Vice-Chair of the Tax Justice Network. She specializes in tax policy and legislation in its practical analysis and application within the context of negotiations with revenue authorities and before tribunals and the judiciary in Africa. She has written numerous articles and reports on issues of taxation and taxation law, with particular reference to developing countries. |
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Corina Rodriguez, Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN), Argentina
Corina is a feminist economist from Argentina. She is researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient??ficas y T??cnicas (Conicet) [National Council of Scientific and Technical Research] at the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Pol??ticas P??blicas (Ciepp) focusing on fiscal and social policies, labour market and social protection, income distribution and care economy. She is also an Executive Committee Member at Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) and part of the Gender and Macroeconomics Latin American Group (GEM-LAC).
Kate Donald, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), UK
Kate is Director of the Human Rights in Development Program at the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and the co-founder & blog editor of Women for Tax Justice. She also worked as Adviser to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (Magdalena Sep??lveda), examining the impact of public policies and development initiatives on the rights of people living in poverty. In particular, she worked on issues including unpaid care work, social protection policies, fiscal policies and access to justice.
Radhika Balakrishnan, Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), India/USA
Radhika is professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University and executive director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership. Her work focuses on gender and development, gender and the global economy, human rights and economic and social rights. Her research and advocacy work has sought to change the lens through which macro-economic policy is interpreted and critiqued by applying international human rights norms to assess macro-economic policy.
Facilitator: Patita Tingoi, Economic Justice Manager at AWID