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14 Apr 2015

Author:
Niko Lusiani, Center for Economic and Social Rights, on Open Global Rights blog

Human rights advocates to collaborate with tax experts to tackle tax injustice at intl. strategy meeting in Peru

"Let's get fiscal – human rights advocates are tackling tax injustice", 8 Apr 2015

...Near the top of every politician's playbook these days lies the resource scarcity card... As a result, the realization of human rights of all types...remain underfunded...The real naivety was to think human rights could be realized without considering the material means of doing so. That approach has come to a sharp end...[H]uman rights practitioners...working alongside economists and tax experts have begun to employ human rights standards...to challenge the injustices embedded in tax policy...[E]xisting human rights standards oblige governments to raise sufficient resources to realize human rights...[G]overnments who facilitate...tax abuse...could be in violation of their international human rights obligations...[T]he upcoming International Strategy Meeting, 'Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights' in Lima...in late April...will convene leading practitioners, scholars, jurists and others from both the tax justice and human rights fields to address several key questions...