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Article

2 Oct 2017

Author:
Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

NGOs continue to advocate for human rights-centered fiscal policies in Andean countries to help tackle poverty & inequality

“Fighting fiscal injustice across the Andean Region”

…After partnering with six regional and national organizations on a series of dialogues in Bogotá and Lima, CESR has published Fiscal Policy for Human Rights and Equality: Mapping debates, initiatives and actors in the Andean region. This report draws on input from more than 50 organizations and experts to offer a strategic road map for potential civil society actions aimed at achieving progressive and structural tax and spending reforms in the Andean nations…Since the dialogues, CESR has been working with partners in Peru and Colombia to advocate for more human rights-centered fiscal policies in those two contexts. It continues to work at the continental level to encourage greater scrutiny by the Inter-American Human Rights System of the role fiscal policy plays in tackling poverty and inequality. CESR is also working in other countries of the region such as Brazil and the United States to challenge specific tax reforms which could have a particularly damaging impact on human rights and equality, both domestically and internationally…