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🌍 The 3rd session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the #UNTaxConvention began today in Nairobi. Delegates returned to the table to shape fairer global tax rules. It was a packed first day. Here’s a quick thread for those following the talks. 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🌍 The 3rd session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the #UNTaxConvention began today in Nairobi. Delegates returned to the table to shape fairer global tax rules. It was a packed first day. Here’s a quick thread for those following the talks. 🧵
Our new joint report with @neweconomics.bsky.social, @ips-dc.org, #IEJ, & #Transforma shows what the #G20 must do to shift course and advance toward a #RightsBasedEconomy
🔎 Read here: bit.ly/47TT8fF
🔎 Read here: bit.ly/47TT8fF
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Our new joint report with @neweconomics.bsky.social, @ips-dc.org, #IEJ, & #Transforma shows what the #G20 must do to shift course and advance toward a #RightsBasedEconomy
🔎 Read here: bit.ly/47TT8fF
🔎 Read here: bit.ly/47TT8fF
Ahead of #COP30, join us to explore how debt, tax & fiscal policies shape the flow of climate finance — and what it will take to make it just.
🗓 3 Nov | 9:30 a.m. ET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/decodingclimatecop
#ClimateJustice #RightsBasedEconomy #COP30 @larutadelclima.bsky.social
🗓 3 Nov | 9:30 a.m. ET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/decodingclimatecop
#ClimateJustice #RightsBasedEconomy #COP30 @larutadelclima.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ahead of #COP30, join us to explore how debt, tax & fiscal policies shape the flow of climate finance — and what it will take to make it just.
🗓 3 Nov | 9:30 a.m. ET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/decodingclimatecop
#ClimateJustice #RightsBasedEconomy #COP30 @larutadelclima.bsky.social
🗓 3 Nov | 9:30 a.m. ET
🔗 Register: bit.ly/decodingclimatecop
#ClimateJustice #RightsBasedEconomy #COP30 @larutadelclima.bsky.social
FRI, OCT 17 • 3:30 ET
Scrutinizing the IMF role on debt. How advice, conditionalities, and DSAs shape recoveries – and how to center rights, gender justice, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/imfroledebt
Scrutinizing the IMF role on debt. How advice, conditionalities, and DSAs shape recoveries – and how to center rights, gender justice, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/imfroledebt
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
FRI, OCT 17 • 3:30 ET
Scrutinizing the IMF role on debt. How advice, conditionalities, and DSAs shape recoveries – and how to center rights, gender justice, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/imfroledebt
Scrutinizing the IMF role on debt. How advice, conditionalities, and DSAs shape recoveries – and how to center rights, gender justice, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/imfroledebt
WED, OCT 15 • 11:00 ET
Extreme wealth – how much is too much? Exploring an “extreme wealth line” to spur action on inequality.
Join: bit.ly/extreme_wealth
Extreme wealth – how much is too much? Exploring an “extreme wealth line” to spur action on inequality.
Join: bit.ly/extreme_wealth
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
WED, OCT 15 • 11:00 ET
Extreme wealth – how much is too much? Exploring an “extreme wealth line” to spur action on inequality.
Join: bit.ly/extreme_wealth
Extreme wealth – how much is too much? Exploring an “extreme wealth line” to spur action on inequality.
Join: bit.ly/extreme_wealth
TUE, OCT 14 • 4:30 ET
From Seville to the CSPF: reimagining IMF governance for a multilateralism fit for purpose. Building on FfD4 to center rights, gender, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/sevilletocspf
From Seville to the CSPF: reimagining IMF governance for a multilateralism fit for purpose. Building on FfD4 to center rights, gender, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/sevilletocspf
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TUE, OCT 14 • 4:30 ET
From Seville to the CSPF: reimagining IMF governance for a multilateralism fit for purpose. Building on FfD4 to center rights, gender, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/sevilletocspf
From Seville to the CSPF: reimagining IMF governance for a multilateralism fit for purpose. Building on FfD4 to center rights, gender, and climate justice.
Join: bit.ly/sevilletocspf
TUE, OCT 14 • 9:00 ET
Cross-institutional collaboration in times of multilateral fragmentation. How can IMF-UN cooperation uphold human rights in macroeconomic policy?
Join: bit.ly/imfun
Cross-institutional collaboration in times of multilateral fragmentation. How can IMF-UN cooperation uphold human rights in macroeconomic policy?
Join: bit.ly/imfun
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TUE, OCT 14 • 9:00 ET
Cross-institutional collaboration in times of multilateral fragmentation. How can IMF-UN cooperation uphold human rights in macroeconomic policy?
Join: bit.ly/imfun
Cross-institutional collaboration in times of multilateral fragmentation. How can IMF-UN cooperation uphold human rights in macroeconomic policy?
Join: bit.ly/imfun
🌍 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
@cesr.bsky.social and allies will push for rights-based reforms to the global financial architecture. Details below ⤵️
#CSPF2025
October 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🌍 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
@cesr.bsky.social and allies will push for rights-based reforms to the global financial architecture. Details below ⤵️
#CSPF2025
We’re in Paris at @icrict.bsky.social’s conversation on Taxation, inequality and democracy in Latin America with Magdalena Sepúlveda, José Antonio Ocampo, Ricardo Martner and Martín Guzmán
#TaxThePower
#TaxThePower
October 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We’re in Paris at @icrict.bsky.social’s conversation on Taxation, inequality and democracy in Latin America with Magdalena Sepúlveda, José Antonio Ocampo, Ricardo Martner and Martín Guzmán
#TaxThePower
#TaxThePower
Join us tomorrow in Addis Ababa 🌍
➡️ African women leaders will spotlight solutions and demands for a just, gender-responsive climate future ahead of #AfricaClimateSummit2
Register: bit.ly/4g6G8H2
➡️ African women leaders will spotlight solutions and demands for a just, gender-responsive climate future ahead of #AfricaClimateSummit2
Register: bit.ly/4g6G8H2
September 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Join us tomorrow in Addis Ababa 🌍
➡️ African women leaders will spotlight solutions and demands for a just, gender-responsive climate future ahead of #AfricaClimateSummit2
Register: bit.ly/4g6G8H2
➡️ African women leaders will spotlight solutions and demands for a just, gender-responsive climate future ahead of #AfricaClimateSummit2
Register: bit.ly/4g6G8H2
We’re in 🇬🇭 #Accra participating in #AfCoDDV, standing with movements demanding an end to a system that extracts from the many to enrich the few.
⤵️ Attending the conference? Join our two side sessions with @amwaafrika.bsky.social, FEMNET, Christian Aid and the Pan African Lawyer's Union
⤵️ Attending the conference? Join our two side sessions with @amwaafrika.bsky.social, FEMNET, Christian Aid and the Pan African Lawyer's Union
August 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We’re in 🇬🇭 #Accra participating in #AfCoDDV, standing with movements demanding an end to a system that extracts from the many to enrich the few.
⤵️ Attending the conference? Join our two side sessions with @amwaafrika.bsky.social, FEMNET, Christian Aid and the Pan African Lawyer's Union
⤵️ Attending the conference? Join our two side sessions with @amwaafrika.bsky.social, FEMNET, Christian Aid and the Pan African Lawyer's Union
💸 Billions promised for climate action are trapped in debt and corporate interests.
Our new guide #DecodingClimateFinance (by @cesr.bsky.social & @larutadelclima.bsky.social) gives activists, researchers and advocates tools to demand change.
🔎 Read and share: bit.ly/decodingclim...
Our new guide #DecodingClimateFinance (by @cesr.bsky.social & @larutadelclima.bsky.social) gives activists, researchers and advocates tools to demand change.
🔎 Read and share: bit.ly/decodingclim...
August 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
💸 Billions promised for climate action are trapped in debt and corporate interests.
Our new guide #DecodingClimateFinance (by @cesr.bsky.social & @larutadelclima.bsky.social) gives activists, researchers and advocates tools to demand change.
🔎 Read and share: bit.ly/decodingclim...
Our new guide #DecodingClimateFinance (by @cesr.bsky.social & @larutadelclima.bsky.social) gives activists, researchers and advocates tools to demand change.
🔎 Read and share: bit.ly/decodingclim...
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📅 The first two sessions of #UNTaxConvention negotiations just wrapped up in New York 🗽
🧵From disputes and data to power imbalances and next steps, here’s what happened on the final day and what we learned from two intense weeks of talks ⤵️
🧵From disputes and data to power imbalances and next steps, here’s what happened on the final day and what we learned from two intense weeks of talks ⤵️
August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
📅 The first two sessions of #UNTaxConvention negotiations just wrapped up in New York 🗽
🧵From disputes and data to power imbalances and next steps, here’s what happened on the final day and what we learned from two intense weeks of talks ⤵️
🧵From disputes and data to power imbalances and next steps, here’s what happened on the final day and what we learned from two intense weeks of talks ⤵️
🧵 #UNTaxConvention Negotiations – Day 9 (14 Aug)
Today’s session focused on Workstream III and Protocol II on the prevention and resolution of tax disputes. Chairs highlighted key problems in the current system, especially transfer pricing, and stressed the need to improve tax certainty ⤵️
Today’s session focused on Workstream III and Protocol II on the prevention and resolution of tax disputes. Chairs highlighted key problems in the current system, especially transfer pricing, and stressed the need to improve tax certainty ⤵️
August 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵 #UNTaxConvention Negotiations – Day 9 (14 Aug)
Today’s session focused on Workstream III and Protocol II on the prevention and resolution of tax disputes. Chairs highlighted key problems in the current system, especially transfer pricing, and stressed the need to improve tax certainty ⤵️
Today’s session focused on Workstream III and Protocol II on the prevention and resolution of tax disputes. Chairs highlighted key problems in the current system, especially transfer pricing, and stressed the need to improve tax certainty ⤵️
🌍 How do age, gender & structural violence intersect?
Join OHCHR & @cesr.bsky.social for a webinar spotlighting older women’s rights & invisibility in data.
📅Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐3PM CEST / 9AM ET
📌Register: bit.ly/intersecting_
Join OHCHR & @cesr.bsky.social for a webinar spotlighting older women’s rights & invisibility in data.
📅Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐3PM CEST / 9AM ET
📌Register: bit.ly/intersecting_
August 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌍 How do age, gender & structural violence intersect?
Join OHCHR & @cesr.bsky.social for a webinar spotlighting older women’s rights & invisibility in data.
📅Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐3PM CEST / 9AM ET
📌Register: bit.ly/intersecting_
Join OHCHR & @cesr.bsky.social for a webinar spotlighting older women’s rights & invisibility in data.
📅Tues, Aug 19 | 🕐3PM CEST / 9AM ET
📌Register: bit.ly/intersecting_
1️⃣ States debated if the protocol should be self-executing or need domestic law. Most agreed it must link to the Framework Convention. The Chair confirmed this is in para 14 of the ToR. See explainer by the Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy: bit.ly/46VOz5z
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
1️⃣ States debated if the protocol should be self-executing or need domestic law. Most agreed it must link to the Framework Convention. The Chair confirmed this is in para 14 of the ToR. See explainer by the Initiative for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy: bit.ly/46VOz5z
🧵 #UNTaxConvention negotiations – Day 8 Highlights (Aug 13)
Delegates continued discussions on taxing cross-border services, focusing on implementation, treaty design, information exchange, and dispute resolution.
Here’s what happened 👇
Delegates continued discussions on taxing cross-border services, focusing on implementation, treaty design, information exchange, and dispute resolution.
Here’s what happened 👇
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
🧵 #UNTaxConvention negotiations – Day 8 Highlights (Aug 13)
Delegates continued discussions on taxing cross-border services, focusing on implementation, treaty design, information exchange, and dispute resolution.
Here’s what happened 👇
Delegates continued discussions on taxing cross-border services, focusing on implementation, treaty design, information exchange, and dispute resolution.
Here’s what happened 👇
🧵 #UNTaxConvention negotiations – Day 7 Highlights (Aug 12)
Talks on Protocol I (taxing income from cross-border services) moved from general positions to technical debate on scope, definitions, and which taxes the protocol should cover.
Here are 10 key takeaways 👇
Talks on Protocol I (taxing income from cross-border services) moved from general positions to technical debate on scope, definitions, and which taxes the protocol should cover.
Here are 10 key takeaways 👇
August 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🧵 #UNTaxConvention negotiations – Day 7 Highlights (Aug 12)
Talks on Protocol I (taxing income from cross-border services) moved from general positions to technical debate on scope, definitions, and which taxes the protocol should cover.
Here are 10 key takeaways 👇
Talks on Protocol I (taxing income from cross-border services) moved from general positions to technical debate on scope, definitions, and which taxes the protocol should cover.
Here are 10 key takeaways 👇
6️⃣ During informal talks, the Chair tested views using examples like intra-company and digital services. Global South countries want all services covered and see gross-basis taxation as simpler. Global North countries and business groups warned it could overtax low-margin services and harm trade.
August 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
6️⃣ During informal talks, the Chair tested views using examples like intra-company and digital services. Global South countries want all services covered and see gross-basis taxation as simpler. Global North countries and business groups warned it could overtax low-margin services and harm trade.
🧵 #UNTaxConvention negotiations – Day 6 highlights
Today focused on general statements about two early protocols:
📌 Protocol I - Taxing income from cross-border services in a digitalized world
📌 Protocol III - Dispute prevention and resolution
Here are 8 key takeaways 👇
Today focused on general statements about two early protocols:
📌 Protocol I - Taxing income from cross-border services in a digitalized world
📌 Protocol III - Dispute prevention and resolution
Here are 8 key takeaways 👇
August 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🧵 #UNTaxConvention negotiations – Day 6 highlights
Today focused on general statements about two early protocols:
📌 Protocol I - Taxing income from cross-border services in a digitalized world
📌 Protocol III - Dispute prevention and resolution
Here are 8 key takeaways 👇
Today focused on general statements about two early protocols:
📌 Protocol I - Taxing income from cross-border services in a digitalized world
📌 Protocol III - Dispute prevention and resolution
Here are 8 key takeaways 👇
🧵 #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👇
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👇
August 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🧵 #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👇
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 🧵
Countries debated three key commitments that could shape the foundation of a just global tax system.
⤵️ Here’s a quick rundown 🧵
August 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
❓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 🧵
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 ⤵️
🌍 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 ⤵️
August 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📅 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 ⤵️
🌍 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 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
August 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
📅 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 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