Join the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and its members around the world demanding #TaxJustice for #WomensRights!
The International Women's Day, March 8, launched our continuous collective action throughout the year: 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action (BPfA) and represents a five-year milestone to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
OBJECTIVES OF THE GLOBAL DAYS OF ACTION
In March 2020, GATJ, our members and our partners are urging movements, citizens’ groups and NGOs around the world to focus their efforts on achieving the following objectives:
Start planning your creative actions to promote #TaxJustice for Women’s Rights in the Global Days of Action, 8-20 March 2020!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Please join us in organising the following activities and actions in the lead up to and during the month of March 2020:
Write a blog
Organise educational discussions in your community
Share stories about women & tax injustices in your country
Popular Education
Social Media and Communications
Policy Engagements
Mobilisations
GET IN TOUCH WITH US!
We are here to share materials with you, support your efforts and give them echo. For more information on how to organise, take part in, and share your activities during the Global Days of Action, feel free to get in touch with GATJ through :
The proposed Global Days of Action serve as an opportunity to make tax justice issues resonate with ordinary people and women who are active at the grassroots level. This March, as we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD), we will be calling on tax justice and women’s rights activists around the globe: to highlight the tax issues affecting women; to ensure that tax justice is embedded in the broader women’s rights agenda; and to build a movement that upholds gender-just, progressive and transformative tax policies.
The Global Days of Action will have a public-facing launch on International Women’s Day on 8 March and an advocacy push to coincide with the UN CSW on 9-20 March. In addition, various forms of actions all over the world will be coordinated to increase the visibility of tax justice issues in general, and those affecting women in particular.
More information will be added to this pages in the coming weeks!
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars of public revenues is lost through illicit financial flows and capital flight through tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations. This deprives governments of the much-needed resources to fund public services, social protection and infrastructure to address inequalities. Marginalized women and those living in poverty are impacted the most. Secondly, regressive and discriminatory tax policies used to raise government revenue continues to have negative impacts on poor people, especially women. In addition, unpaid care work mostly carried out by women remains invisible in the economy. Governments therefore need to act for tax justice by need to recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work; collect tax revenues in a progressive and gender-just manner, as a sustainable way to finance the commitments to end poverty and reduce inequality. Tax revenue justice needs to be a lived reality for women and girls everywhere.
It is against this background that the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) and partners will hold the Global days of action. GATJ will therefore act as a uniting and campaigning front for the global tax justice movement and women´s rights movement – bringing together civil society groups in coalitions at the national, regional and international levels. This will be done through collectively designed actions and promotion of alternate solutions to help individual efforts achieve greater visibility and impact.
