The resources promised to confront the climate crisis are still shaped by colonial legacies and unequal power. Our new guide with @larutadelclima.bsky.social shows how we can push for justice, rights and reparations. ➡️ Download now: bit.ly/decodingclim...

Global tax rules didn’t emerge in a vacuum—they were built on racial capitalism. In our latest #KeyVoices, @islandtaxprof.bsky.social calls for dismantling this global Jim Crow & advancing real tax justice. Read more ⬇️ #FiscalJustice #TaxJustice www.cesr.org/key-voices-s...

🌍 As the IMF and the World Bank meet in #WashingtonDC for the Annual Meetings, debates on debt, tax, and climate finance take center stage. @cesr.bsky.social and allies will push for rights-based reforms to the global financial architecture. Details below ⤵️ #CSPF2025

🎥 “No country can do this alone.” At the #UNTaxConvention negotiating session, our Research and Policy Lead, María Emilia Mamberti, calls for effective taxation of high-net-worth individuals, not just stopping evasion. 📺 youtu.be/8yon1QxUUG0 #HNWIs #TaxJustice #UNTC

🧵 #UNTaxConvention Negotiations – Day 3 highlights: Day 3 opened with what may be the Convention’s most contested issue: fair allocation of taxing rights (FATR). Behind technical language is a fight over who gets to tax and who benefits. Here’s what happened in 10 key points👇

❓What happened during Day 2 of the #UNTaxConvention negotiations? Countries debated three key commitments that could shape the foundation of a just global tax system. ⤵️ Here’s a quick rundown 🧵

📅 Yesterday was a historic moment for global tax justice. 🌍 The first substantive session of the #UNTaxConvention took place. All Member States reaffirmed their commitment to the process. Here are 6 key takeaways from Day 1 ⤵️

📅 Monday, Aug 4: A historic moment for global tax justice. 🌍 The first substantive negotiations of the #UNTaxConvention began today, with all Member States reaffirming their commitment to this landmark process. Here are 6 key takeaways from Day 1 ⬇️ #TaxJustice #UNTC

The #UNTaxConvention negotiations kicked off today. Our new blog maps early State & stakeholder submissions: from taxing rights to fairness, rights, and climate justice. Read what’s at stake ➡️ www.cesr.org/early-signal...

🌍 Climate change is a #HumanRights crisis. Two of the world’s top courts just confirmed it in historic advisory opinions. ✅ States must prevent harm ✅ Regulate polluters ✅ Protect future generations A turning point for #ClimateJustice. 🔗 www.cesr.org/landmark-win...

🌱 How do we reclaim care as a public good and collective responsibility? In our #KeyVoices series, Verónica Montúfar of @psiglobalunion.bsky.social reflects on feminist unionism, public investment & building power to transform care. 🔗 cesr.org/key-voices-v...

🌍 How can feminist tax strategies respond to austerity, digitalization & anti-rights backlash? Join this discussion during the 5th #FiscalJustice and #HumanRights Week: 📅 July 24 | ⏰ 13:00 🇦🇷🇧🇷 | 10:00 🇲🇽 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/3bt2p2ws

The global rules of finance must serve human rights—not undermine them. 🎥 Watch highlights from our joint side event at #FfD4 youtube.com/watch?v=SoLb... With @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social, @liznelson13.bsky.social, @sylvainaubry.bsky.social & more Thank you @taxjustice.net for the video!

How can global economic policy shift from hindering to enabling gender equality? In CESR’s latest blog, our Director of Program @drmariannaleite.bsky.social urges that the 2025 #HLPF and #BeijingPlus30 confront the economic roots of gender inequality. 🔗 Read: www.cesr.org/global-presc...

@cesr.bsky.social is pleased do be co-organising an #HLPF side event with @ProfSuryaDeva, co-sponsored by 🇩🇪 Germany and 🇧🇷 Brazil, to further distill #SDG5 challenges & opportunities. Do join us at: 🇺🇳 UN Headquarters, Conference Room F 📆 Wednesday, the 16th of July 2025 🕐 13:15-14:30 EDT

💵 Billionaires hold $16.2 trillion (more than the GDP of every country except the US and China) yet are taxed just 0.3–0.4%. At #FfD4, Spain and Brazil launched a joint proposal for a global wealth tax, opening the door to a broader coalition. We unpack what it means ⤵️ www.cesr.org/spain-and-br...

From #FFD4 in Sevilla: One of the most urgent conversations here is how to design economies to uphold human rights & repair the harm caused by systemic failures & inequality. @giescr.bsky.social @cesr.bsky.social Learn more about what we mean by a human rights economy: www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...

Gender injustice doesn’t just happen — it’s built into our global economic system. Our new #DecodingInjustice guide with Third World Network shows how tax, debt and trade rules fuel inequality, and how to challenge them using human rights. Download now ⬇️ bit.ly/decoding_gender

Are you in #Seville for #FfD4? Join us on Monday at 12:30 ⤵️

Missed the CAN Press Conference livestream on Closing Reflections on Bonn SB 62 - and the Road to COP30? 📽️Watch the full press briefing highlights on our YouTube channel @anabellarosemberg.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6nU...

📰 ECO is out 🌍 Just Transition = real lives, not words 🚫 Kick polluters out of COP 💔 End toxic fossil finance 🚨 Justice for Kenya 🗣️ Youth demand action 🛑 No to bio-traps 🔥 1.5°C isn’t a vibe—it’s a deadline 📉 MWP fails to close ambition gap 📎 Read: climatenetwork.org/resource/eco...

🌡️ “Without public finance from rich countries and real accountability, we won’t close the ambition gap—or stay below 1.5°C.” @rebeccathissen.bsky.social #ClimateJustice #JustTransition #PayUp #SystemChange

People power is essential. At #SB62, we pushed for climate finance as reparatory justice, not charity. Solutions must be led by frontline communities. The fight for #ClimateJustice is a fight for human rights. More: bit.ly/4lhuzhG

🌍✨ Side Event | Climate Reparations: Advancing Finance and Human Rights for Frontline Communities 📅 Date: June 24 🕘 Time: 16:30 – 17:45 📍 Location: Room Berlin @cesr.bsky.social @larutadelclima.bsky.social @amnesty.org @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @coolearthaction.bsky.social

As climate negociations stands at a crossroads, @cesr.bsky.social is present at #SB62 to echo calls for human rights centred climate finance. There is no climate justice without #humanrights. There is no #economicjustice without #climatejustice. #UNTC #DebtJustice @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social

In the coming weeks, we will be part of key global spaces shaping the future of climate and economic justice 💵 Join @cesr.bsky.social at London Climate Action Week, #SB62, #FfD4, and more 🌎 👇🏼https://www.cesr.org/cesr-at-london-climate-action-week-sb62-and-ffd4/ @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social

Who pays for the damage climate change leaves behind? Join us for this #SB62 event to find out more✍🏼 🌍✨ Side Event | Climate Reparations: Advancing Finance and Human Rights for Frontline Communities 📅 Date: June 24 🕘 Time: 16:30 – 17:45 📍 Location: Room Berlin

The #CompromisoDeSevilla is more than just another UN outcome: it’s a contested space where power, politics & possibility collide. In our newest blog post, we unpack what it really means for #DebtJustice, #TaxJustice & rights-based reform. Read below ⬇️ #FfD4

Aligning financial flows with climate justice isn’t a technical fix: it’s a political choice. Our new briefing with @re-course.org exposes the barriers and sets out what governments must do to make climate finance support a just transition. 🔗 bit.ly/art2-1c #SB62

As #SB62 opens in Bonn, climate finance is back in the spotlight, and still failing the Global South. #COP29 fell short, offering too little and ignoring equity. It’s time to center human rights in how climate funds are raised and distributed. Read more: bit.ly/4kJFXTP

🌍 Las reglas fiscales globales se están reescribiendo. ¿Servirán a las personas? Nuestra nueva nota técnica muestra cómo la #ConvenciónFiscalONU puede redistribuir el poder y alinear la cooperación tributaria con los derechos humanos. 📑 Léela aquí: bit.ly/3Z3PPPv

While the Global South brings urgency and solutions to upcoming #FfD4, Global North governments remain absent in presence & ambition Europe is blocking progress on just debt resolution & democratic tax reform. It’s time to back UN-led financing for development centered on rights. #EraOfJustice

🌍 As UN tax negotiations gear up to resume in August, Latin America & the Caribbean are showing what’s possible when fiscal policy is rooted in human rights. At a high-level dialogue in Santiago, voices from across the region called for just global tax rules. 📰 Read more: bit.ly/3ZAUwQU

🌈Happy #Pride Weekend Brussels! #LoveIsLove - No difference, no obstacles, no hate! 🌈

📍Geneva | At today’s #Beijing30 & #RightToDevelopment side event, our Director of Program @drmariannaleite.bsky.social reminded us: “Beijing is the bare minimum. Without binding rules, public financing, and human rights accountability, it risks becoming a ceiling—not a springboard.”

"The current international financial architecture perpetuates historical injustices and exacerbates global inequalities. #FfD4 presents a critical opportunity to reshape this system through a human rights lens", @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social at #FinancingOurFuture @feps-europe.eu

What do we mean by Human Rights Economies? Mahinour El Badrawi @cesr.bsky.social explains the principles that underpin it. Read here to learn more: www.cesr.org/sites/defaul...

“Sovereign debt restructuring today lacks fairness, coherence & predictability—shaped by creditor-dominated, ad hoc processes that fail to prioritize people’s rights or countries’ obligations to them” our Global Partnerships Lead, Mahinour El Badrawi #FfD4People

Pope Francis’ economic message was clear: cancel unjust debt, fight inequality, and build an economy centered on human dignity. As the Jubilee approaches, his call for structural change remains urgent. ➡️ Read more in our latest blog: bit.ly/4cUTDbw

🚨 Next Monday: 📣 Join us in NYC or online to discuss what a human rights lens can bring to #FfD4, with Mahinour ElBadrawi, Luke Holland, @sergiochaparro.bsky.social, and @unhumanrights.bsky.social's Rio Hada 📅 April 28, 2025 🕓 4:45PM ET 📍 In person: bit.ly/4iua0wI 💻 Online: bit.ly/4ixl6kz

“Private creditors are never willing to lower the interest rate. They want debt sustainability—and they want high interest rates. And they also believe that markets work perfectly. If you can square that circle, you deserve a Nobel Prize,” @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

"Research shows interest rates [charged to countries in the Global South] cannot be justified by the default rate. Capital markets are not working the way theory suggests." Professor @josephestiglitz.bsky.social at the #DebtPaperSeriesLaunch #IEJ

“Countries are defaulting on their development through crises not of their making”, Dr. Penelope Hawkins, UNCTAD Senior Economist #DebtPaperSeriesLaunch

"For any Argentine person,the name and face of the IMF Managing Director is more familiar than knowing their Minister of Education—because the impact on their lives is more significant", our Research & Policy Lead María Emilia Mamberti at the #DebtPaperSeriesLaunch

"Human rights allow us to see that the debt debate is not only between creditors and debtors—it also involves the rights of people living in debtor countries," our Research & Policy Lead María Emilia Mamberti at the #DebtPaperSeriesLaunch

The #IEJ #DebtPaperSeries is out! Our joint paper shows how debt restructuring can uphold human rights—so countries aren’t forced to choose between repaying creditors & protecting people. 📘 Read: bit.ly/3GhRyKe 🔗 Full series: iej.org.za

Can sovereign debt restructuring uphold human rights and economic justice? Join @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, Zane Dangor & more for a bold conversation on rethinking the rules. 🔊 Join us online (bit.ly/3Ymwmt1) or in person in DC (bit.ly/3YmylNZ) 📅 Apr 21 | 3–5 PM ET

We welcome the UN's Human Rights Council recent resolution on #ESCRights, which strengthens the link between human rights and fiscal policy 💪 It represents meaningful progress in recognizing tax justice as essential to fulfilling states’ human rights obligations. Our analysis in full ⬇️

Will #FfD4 in Seville deliver real change—or reinforce the status quo? We analyzed the conference's First Draft and we break down: 🔸 What’s in the draft—and what’s missing 🔸 Why civil society must step up now to push for real change Read in full ⤵️

Love working with creative colleagues! If you aim to hear a new song this week, you must watch this from out sisters from @APMDD 🎧https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE1tFNSdJu4 @gatj.bsky.social webinar taking place now! 👇🏽