GI-ESCR promotes actions in the framework of the Initiative "Principles for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy"

As of April 2022, GI-ESCR is part of the Initiative Principles for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy. A collaborative civil society initiative to put human rights and social justice at the center of tax and public spending policies.

The Initiative developed the 15 Principles of Human Rights in Fiscal Policy, built by a Committee of Experts through a broad regional latin american dialogue, which provide tools to the States and other actors to know their obligations, to the control organisms to carry out its monitoring work and citizens to demand better policies. This initiative is meant to be a tool so that the States fulfill their commitments, so that companies and individuals contribute more fairly according to their ability to pay, and that citizens demand fiscal policies in accordance with their needs and aspirations.

Within the framework of this initiative, GI-ESCR collaborated in the preparation of a report in which we analysed a series of fiscal measures taken as part of the efforts of the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico in the midst of of the COVID-19 pandemic. We based ourselves on the recommendations made by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, ECLAC and the aforementioned Human Rights Principles in Fiscal Policy.

Likewise, in August 2022 we participated in the regional conference “After the pandemic, the war” organized by Latindadd and the Tax Justice Network of Latin America, in the city of Lima, Peru. The event had four discussion axes: Tax justice, new financial architecture, transformative economies and regional integration. In total, we participated in 8 thematic panels and held parallel meetings with strategic partners on issues of taxation, human rights, gender and climate change.