Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights 2024
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Campaign overview | Thank you note | What’s next
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Campaign Overview
We are thrilled to bring to a close the 8th edition of the Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights, after five energetic days of raising the call Tax Fairly for Gender-transformative Care!
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A summary of the rich discussions during the campaign launch, Feminist Feminist Taxation for Financing for Care, and closing events.
Designer and illustrator: Sonja Niederhumer
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From March 18 - 22, 2024, we raised our voices to demand recognition of care work in tax policy formulation, progressive taxation for public services, elimination of burdensome regressive tax measures on caregivers, tax transparency and accountability to curb illicit financial flows, and a UN Tax Convention that contributes towards gender justice.
With an engaging programme compose of 11 activities including webinars, podcasts and in-person parallel events to the 68th UN Commission on the Status of Women, and a dynamic multi-media social media campaign featuring a diversity of voices from around the world, we are confident the campaign made a solid contribution to raising awareness about the role tax systems in promoting a fairer social organisation of care and thus contributing to women’s rights.
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This year’s campaign would not have been possible without the commitment, engagement and participation of tax justice, women’s rights, gender equality and feminist activists, advocates and organisations.
We are grateful to the GATJ’s regional networks - Tax and Fiscal Justice Asia, Tax Justice Network Africa, Tax Justice Europe, Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe, FACT Coalition, and Canadians for Tax Fairness - and members of the Tax and Gender Working Group (TGWG) for their support in making the campaign a success.
We extend our deepest thanks to all partner organisations that organised a campaign activity, helped amplify the campaign messages by joining our social media actions, and to all individuals that attended the campaign events.
Our special appreciation is due to the Gender and Development Network (GADN) and Akina Mama wa Afrika for their timely integration of the campaign core group and substantive contribution to making this year’s campaign a reality.
Building on the tradition of previous years, this campaign serves as a testament to the collective power and commitment of our southern-led, global, feminist tax and gender movement to continuing shaping narratives and policies to
#MakeTaxesWorkForWomen.
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What’s Next?
The campaign has finished, but our call for Tax Justice for Women’s Rights is a continuous effort. Here are some events happening soon:
- Following the sneak peek provided during today’s campaign closing event, in the coming weeks we will host a virtual launch of the new Tax and Gender Working Group 2024 - 2028 Strategy.
- The TGWG will also engage in raising awareness of this year’s campaign topic during the upcoming 2024 session of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Forum on Financing for Development Follow-up (FfD Forum), taking place between 22-25 April 2024.
- Later in the year, the group will also publish the 3rd volume of the Framing Feminist Taxation Guide focused on Financing for Care, featuring the case-studies presented during the similar-titled campaign webinar. In the meantime, get familiarised with the first and second volumes of the guide.
Join the Tax and Gender Working Group to remain abreast of these developments and help shape future campaign and policy advocacy actions to advance a feminist tax justice agenda in the weeks, months and years to come.
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About the TGWG
The TGWG was established by the GATJ in 2016 as a dedicated platform for its members and committed partners to directly engage in campaign and policy advocacy efforts on tax and gender issues. Its primary objective was to enhance the global integration of organisations working on tax and gender justice, women’s rights organisations (WROs), global trade unions, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), and civil society organisations (CSOs).
Over the past eight years, the TGWG has collectively coordinated eight editions of the Global Days of Actions on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights, as well as the publication of Framing Feminist Taxation Guides (volume 1 and volume 2), which provide guidance and recommendations for policy-making and advocacy that can influence and change our current economic and tax systems for a feminist future.
Other milestones of the working group also include the first global convening on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights in Bogotá, in 2017; the Bogotá Declaration on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights; and one edition of a Global Conference on Tax Justice and Gender Equality. In addition to these, working group members have collaborated on a vast array of opinion pieces, policy briefs, workshops, trainings and actively participated in global, regional and national policy spaces amongst which the Commission on the Status of Women, the High Level Political Forum of Sustainable Development (HPLF), and the IMF/World Bank Annual and Spring Meetings.
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