Launch day highlights and what’s happening today


** Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights 2024
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Campaign Dispatch #1
Yesterday’s Highlights | Happening Today | What’s Next
Launch Day Highlights

This year’s edition of the Global Days of Action on Tax Justice and Women’s Rights 2024 kicked off yesterday in a powerful way! ✊🏾

We are thankful to the representatives from GATJ’s regional networks in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Canada and the United States for sharing compelling insights on the status of care financing in their contexts and the imperative of demanding tax systems that support a fair social organisation of care and women’s rights.

Below are some of the notable quotes from the panel.

Aurea Mouzinho, GATJ
“This year, with the banner Taxing Fairly for Gender-Transformative Care, the campaign calls attention to the essential role that tax revenues can and should play in the recognition, reduction, redistribution, rewarding and reclaiming the public nature of the disproportionate burden of care work realised by women and girls around the world.”

Chenai Mukumba, TJNA
“A feminist approach to tax systems is important because it acknowledges that tax is not only a financial and economic tool but also a reflection of local, cross-border, societal norms and power structures which are often disadvantageous to women.”

Thao Hoang, Action Aid Vietnam
"About 67% of healthcare workers don’t have enough resources or support to ensure that they have decent jobs at the hospital and clinics. However, the tax holidays Vietnam gives to corporations and tech companies can pay for the salaries of 45,000 nurses for a year. This shows the gaps in our resources which undermine public services."

Amy Matsui, National Women’s Law Center (US)
“If we don’t make the right policy choices, we lose the opportunity to make the economy work for women, especially women of colour.”

Tove Ryding, Eurodad
“This year, we are negotiating the terms of reference for the new UN Framework Convention on international tax cooperation. Ensuring that gender is solidly in those terms is a key battle and a first step to the systematic reforms that we are calling for.”

📹Watch the full event recording here ([link removed]) for more insights from the panel.
Happening Today
Today, Tuesday March 19th, we continue the campaign with a spotlight on our first demand.
Join the action by posting the demand card ([link removed]) on social media, and adapting our suggested posts.

Read the campaign toolkit for more information ([link removed])

Also, don’t miss out on the two TGWG-member organised events taking place today:

Financing For Care Economy – Why is it important for the Rights-based economy?
Webinar organised by FTC, APMDD, Latindadd, TJNA, Christian Aid as a CSW side event at 13:00 CET. Register here ([link removed]) .

Progressive Taxation and Feminist Financing Mechanisms to Address Inequality and the Root Causes of Conflict.
UNCSW68 in-person parallel event organised by APMDD and Oxfam at 12:30–2:00 pm EST.
Venue: CCUN 8th Floor, New York.
What’s Next?

Tomorrow, Wednesday March 20th, we will have a day packed with opportunities to engage, share and connect; including the Framing Feminist Taxation for Financing for Care webinar.

In this session organised by members of the Tax and Gender Working Group, speakers will present early insights from case studies on the structure of financing for care in selected countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

🗣️🌐 Interpretation into Spanish and French will be available.

Register to join ([link removed])
Consult the Campaign Programme ([link removed]) for information on the other events happening on Wednesday and beyond.


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