About Liz Nelson
Raising the voices of communities from Asia
Cancel Public Debt, Build Just Tax Systems and End Financial Support for Fossil Fuels in Response to Multiple Crises. In solidarity with our fellow activists and advocates in the Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) we post here their press release regarding the open letter they have delivered to the UN General Assembly. October 1, 2020 As world
Read the full article…In Apple’s victory lies a defeat for women’s rights
Earlier this week the European Court of Justice (ECJ) published its ruling on Ireland’s state aid to Apple, annulling an earlier decision against the country and the tech giant. This new ruling means that the Irish Government does not need to collect the 13.1 billion Euro which Apple might have otherwise contributed to the public coffer. It is expected that
Read the full article…Moving beyond poverty begins with tax justice
The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Professor Philip Alston has concluded his missions to observe the state of human rights in various countries, with strong condemnation of the failures to eradicate poverty. And he begins and concludes his final report for the Human Rights Council underlining the importance of tax justice. This speaks volumes
Read the full article…Generation Equality – Calling young feminists for tax justice
The call for youth-led organisations and movements to lead the Action Coalitions for Generation Equality has been reopened by UN Women. Deadline 19 July 2020. UN Women is part of the United Nation and is the overall convener of the Action Coalitions. The Action Coalitions cover six critical areas (see below) designed to help achieve substantive gender equality and rights for women.
Read the full article…COVID-19: Progressive Tax Measures to Realize Rights
Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic people are bracing themselves. ‘Build back better’ is the mantra, but what does that mean in terms of tax justice and human rights? How should governments respond in the face of anticipated economic and social hardships? Like many others we are concerned governments’ policies should not deepen inequalities or negate many of our fundamental
Read the full article…Women & Tax: can you help with this survey?
Liz Nelson coordinates our Tax Justice & Human Rights work and she’s undertaking research as part of Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity Programme of which she is a 2019/20 Fellow. Can you help with her survey? She explains more: I’m working on a project to understand women’s attitudes towards, and knowledge of tax and I’ve designed a short
Read the full article…VIRTUAL EVENT: Health versus Wealth? Tax and transparency in the age of Covid-19
Powerful shocks like pandemics, wars or financial crashes have an impact on society, but the nature of that impact depends on the theories people hold about history, society, the balance of power – in a word, ideology – which varies from place to place. It always takes major social and political mobilisation to move societies in the direction of equality.”
Read the full article…COVID-19: India’s self-employed women, rights and a sustainable response
Acknowledgement: The Tax Justice Network is grateful for the information provided by India’s Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The COVID 19 pandemic has ‘flipped’ our understanding of many things which we took for granted pre-lockdown. One of these is the role of the state. States have needed to act to protect our health, our incomes, our industries. This has restricted
Read the full article…A Feminist Response to COVID-19
Today we are delighted to support the launch of a new and critically important website: ‘a volunteer online data repository of information on feminist principles and actions, as well as policy responses to the COVID crisis.’ After the 64th UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2020 was cancelled, feminists came together within days to share, support and
Read the full article…When the factory gates are bolted shut, women need country by country reporting
In recent days a number of sudden and dramatic changes have happened in the labour market in already fragile economies, as the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has shown. Many workers who are poorly paid and in precarious relationships [read zero or no contracts] with ‘absent’ employers – are losing their incomes. Many of these workers are women and girls.
Read the full article…Make Taxes Work For Women
Great that you remembered 8 March is International Women’s Day! The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) has too! The Global Alliance and its members around the world have been organising and today begin the Global Days of Action on #TaxJustice for #WomensRights, 8-20 March 2020! Here’s what’s happening in 2020 and how you can join the campaign to make
Read the full article…Gender Equality: Can Taxation Make It A Reality?
© United Nations Photo Days before the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women was scheduled to meet in New York to focus on the gender equality aims promised in global agreements, goals and declarations, writes Liz Nelson, will we finally look beyond traditional thinking about how these aims can (or cannot) be funded? Are we ready to admit that
Read the full article…Reviving commitments to women’s equality for UNCSW 64/Beijing+25
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW) 64 is coming round soon. This annual event, held in New York at the UN HQ from 9 to 20 March 2020, has special significance this year. 2020 marks the twenty fifth anniversary year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Read the full article…“The longer we wait, the greater the loss of life and damage to the world economy”
Title quoted from the IMF’s recent blog, “Fiscal Policies to Curb Climate Change” The decision to end fuel subsidies in Ecuador have sparked days of protest and driven the cost of petrol and diesel to suddenly spike with the inevitable effect of driving up the cost of daily essentials – food and transport to name but two. The hardships are
Read the full article…Joint statement of trans solidarity in feminist tax justice advocacy
We are pleased to support and co-host this joint statement on trans-solidarity on behalf of feminists for fiscal justice, tax and economic policies. Joint statement of trans solidarity in feminist tax justice advocacy We are feminists working for fiscal justice for all women and for women’s inclusion in – and a feminist perspective on – debates around tax and economic
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