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Debt Paper Series Launch | Washington D.C. | April 2025
eading experts, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, called for urgent sovereign debt reform at the launch of the Sovereign Debt Working Paper Series, led by IEJ with contributions from CESR and Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center.
Relive “Privacy vs. transparency: Human rights and the UN Tax Convention”
On October 22, CESR hosted a webinar addressing the complexities of privacy, transparency, and human rights in the context of global tax reform.
Unmasking debt injustice: how sovereign debt violates human rights
Our new video, an introduction to the Decoding Debt Injustice guide, authored by CESR and Debt Justice, sheds light on the often hidden forces that perpetuate the global sovereign debt crisis.
CESR's intervention: Day 2 of the 2nd round of UNTC Terms of Reference negotiations
Our Co-Director of Program, María Emilia Mamberti, took the floor at the United Nations Tax Convention negotiations to highlight the critical importance of integrating human rights into fiscal policy
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Pioneering Gender Equality in a Rights-Based Economy
On 19 June 2024, CESR hosted a fascinating roundtable discussion, examining how our vision for a Rights-Based Economy (RBE) can incorporate ideas from indigenous and feminist movements to fully realize economic and social rights. Relive it here.
CESR's intervention at the United Nations Tax Convention Ad-Hoc Committee
CESR delivered a statement at the meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee drafting the terms of reference for a United Nations Framework Convention for International Tax Cooperation. Read our intervention here.
Video: Shifting the Narrative Recommendations
This video summarizes the key findings of our Shifting the Narrative project.
Watch: For a Gender Transformative Digital New Deal
CESR and allies discuss a common agenda for a gender-transformative digital new deal at CSW 67.
Strategizing with indigenous leaders from Peru and Colombia
Fiscal policies must include indigenousr rights. Watch the reflections of our latest workshop with indigenous leaders from the Amazon and Andes..
In Critical Times, a Roadmap for Action
Late last year, as part of our effort to tell this new story, CESR published A Rights-Based Economy: putting people and planet first with our partners Christian Aid. Today, we’re launching this short video summarizing some of the ideas in the report. We’re hoping to spark conversation about the economies we need and how we can use human rights to get there.
Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Human Rights in Peru
Peru's success story in terms of growth and poverty reduction requires a more nuanced evaluation, given persistent inequalities and the government's failure to guarantee social rights and ensure sustainable growth through sound fiscal practices. This short video offers two compelling examples of unjustified rights deprivations caused by the country's unfair fiscal and budgetary policies: the setbacks in bilingual intercultural education policy and the lack of adequate funding for cancer policies.
Fiscal Policy and the Rights of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples
Video from workshop in Bogotá bringing together Indigenous and Afro-descendant leaders from Peru and Colombia to discuss the links between unjust fiscal policies, extractive industries, and the rights and wellbeing of these communities..
The Opera Framework
CESR has developed a simple, yet comprehensive four-step framework to analyze various aspects of the obligation to fulfill economic and social rights. Adopting the acronym OPERA, the framework incorporates different measures for specific human rights principles and standards, by framing them around four levels of analysis: Outcomes, Policy Efforts, Resources and Assessment.
Brazil: Human Rights in Times of Austerity
This video illustrates that advances in tackling poverty and human rights deprivations in Brazil are at risk from a series of harmful and severe austerity measures put in place by the government starting in 2015.
Brasil: direitos humanos em tempos de austeridade
Levantamento realizado pelo Centro para os Direitos Econômicos e Sociais (CESR), INESC e Oxfam Brasil e revela que políticas públicas voltadas à área social tiveram redução de até 83% no orçamento nos últimos três anos. A área que mais perdeu recursos desde 2014 foi a de direitos da juventude, seguida dos programas voltados à segurança alimentar, mudanças climáticas, moradia digna e defesa dos direitos humanos de crianças e adolescentes.
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.
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.
Tax, Inequality & Human Rights
Leading figures from the worlds of human rights and tax justice reflect on the critical importance of bringing these spheres of activism together.
Defending Dignity: Introduction
CESR and the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) present a new manual - ‘Defending Dignity’ - designed to strengthen the role of National Human Rights Institutions in monitoring and enforcing economic, social and cultural rights. The manual is complemented by a series of motion graphics and explanatory videos.This introduction unpacks the question of what is monitoring, and what should it mean for NHRIs getting to grips with economic, social and cultural rights. It covers a wide range of activities that NHRIs commonly undertake as part of their mandated functions.
Defending Dignity Part I: Defining the issues
CESR and the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) present a new manual - ‘Defending Dignity’ - designed to strengthen the role of National Human Rights Institutions in monitoring and enforcing economic, social and cultural rights. The manual is complemented by a series of motion graphics and explanatory videos. This section explains how a human rights-based approach can be used to frame questions about poverty and socio-economic deprivation in a way that holds the relevant actors responsible for human rights violations.
Defending Dignity Part III: Assessing resources
CESR and the Asia-Pacific Forum (APF) present a new manual - ‘Defending Dignity’ - designed to strengthen the role of National Human Rights Institutions in monitoring and enforcing economic, social and cultural rights. The manual is complemented by a series of motion graphics combined with explanatory videos. This section tackles the often-challenging issue of assessing resources. It introduces the policy areas that are relevant to consider when assessing resources, before showing how budget analysis approaches can be used to investigate how resources are allocated, generated and spent.
Defending Dignity Part II: Collecting and analyzing data
CESR and the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) present a new manual - ‘Defending Dignity’ - designed to strengthen the role of National Human Rights Institutions in monitoring and enforcing economic, social and cultural rights. The manual is complemented by a series of motion graphics and explanatory videos. Part II of the manual tackles collecting and analysing data. After defining the right question to ask, the next step is to collect the data that can help answer that question.
Defending Dignity Part IV: Communicating findings
CESR and the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) present a new manual - ‘Defending Dignity’ - designed to strengthen the role of National Human Rights Institutions in monitoring and enforcing economic, social and cultural rights. The manual is complemented by a series of motion graphics combined with explanatory videos. This final section addresses what will be the most tangible “output” of any monitoring activity - the report – examining the factors that will make it most compelling and so contribute to effective advocacy.
Amina Mohammed: tax justice, human rights and post-2015 development
Amina J Mohammed, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Post-2015 Development Planning, talks to CESR about the role human rights and tax justice must play in future development efforts
Magdalena Sepulveda
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Magdalena Sepulveda, who is also a member of CESR's board, delivers a message to the conference 'Advancing Fiscal Justice through Human Rights' in Lima, Peru, 29 April 2015.
Twenty Years of Economic and Social Rights Advocacy
Leading figures from the world of human rights reflect on progress in the field, and CESR's contribution, since the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Program of Action. Contributors include:
Post-2015: 'Measuring What We Treasure'
On 23 March 2015, members of the Post-2015 Human Rights Caucus staged a side event at the UN to discuss rights-based indicators for transformative post-2015 sustainable development. Learn more about the Post-2015 Human Rights Caucus here: https://www.cesr.org/article.php?id=1684
Alan Miller
Alan Miller, Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, reflects on the importance of CESR's monitoring tools in the work of national human rights institutions.