Just over four years have passed since a huge archive of secret documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, containing wide-ranging details of fraud, tax evasion and other illegal financial schemes, were leaked to a German newspaper provoking a global scandal. The public outcry that … [Read more...]
Gender
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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’ … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Videos: Touring London, the capital of secrecy
After three and a half years of acrimony, Brexit will become a reality in just a few days time. January 31st will be a historic moment, for both Europe and the United Kingdom, marked by jubilant celebrations in some circles and profound misgivings in others. One very small but extremely powerful … [Read more...]
Social protection rights for women vs fear of alienating private interests at the UN
Last week marked the end of the 63rd Meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW 63, March 11th-22nd 2019). More information and analysis is available here from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, well worth a read. This series of events, meetings and deliberations is … [Read more...]
Let’s talk about what nobody at Davos wanted to talk about: tax and women
We're sharing here and article written by the Tax Justice Network's Liz Nelson, head of our research and campaigning on Tax Justice and Human Rights for the news, discussion and debate website Irish Broad Left. The original article was published here. Let’s talk about what nobody at Davos wanted … [Read more...]
Taxing for ‘true equality’: EU adopts tax and gender proposals
"Gender equality can and should be promoted at all levels, including fiscal policy. This report is an important step towards the promotion of a more equitable distribution of income, wealth, opportunities, productive assets and services. That is, true equality". So said MEP Marisa Matias at Monday's … [Read more...]
Too little interest, too little political will to address inequalities and human rights?
On Monday 7 January, an adjournment debate took place in the UK parliament on the recent UN report on poverty and austerity in the UK. It was hosted by the UK Labour party’s Shadow Minister for Children, Emma Lewell-Buck. Scheduled at the end of the day’s parliamentary business, the debate drew a … [Read more...]
UK next in the UN hot seat over impact of City of London, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories tax policies on women’s rights
Guest blog Kathleen A. Lahey Professor of Law, Queen’s University Non-Executive Director, Tax Justice Network Advocates for gender equality in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or in any of its three Crown Dependencies and fourteen Overseas Territories have a unique … [Read more...]
The UK must face up to the gender inequality it enables internationally
Co-written by the Tax Justice Network and Oxfam GB The United Kingdom is currently being reviewed by the United Nations (UN) on how well it is meeting its commitments on women's gender equality rights guaranteed by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women … [Read more...]
