What We Do
Rights-Based Economy
We are reshaping how economic policy is understood by placing human rights at its core. Since releasing a foundational report in 2020, we have worked globally with partners to build a compelling, rights-based vision that informs policy, strengthens movements, and opens pathways for systemic change.
Decoding Injustice
Through Decoding Injustice, communities lead rights-based research that shows how economic policies harm people’s lives. Grounded in shared tools like OPERA, this work generates powerful evidence to challenge oppression and drive change from the ground up.
Fiscal Justice
For decades, we have worked to embed human rights into fiscal policy. By connecting movements across regions and sectors, we help challenge unjust tax and spending systems and promote rights-based alternatives that advance equity, accountability, and collective wellbeing.
Shifting the Narrative
We tell stories that change how people understand rights, inequality, and the economy. By strengthening how economic justice is communicated, we help expand what’s possible in advocacy and policymaking—laying the groundwork for deeper, lasting policy change.
Gender Justice
From tax to debt to global economic rules, policy decisions shape whose rights are fulfilled. We bring a feminist lens to expose the gendered impacts of these systems and advance alternatives rooted in care, equity, and justice.
Climate Justice
The climate crisis is driven by economic injustice. We transform global systems by advancing fair taxation, debt justice, and climate finance grounded in reparations. We support a just transition that secures rights, equity, and a sustainable, prosperous future.
Building an economy that works for people & the planet
Shifting narratives. Producing evidence. Impacting policies. We harness the power of human rights to challenge the unjust distribution of resources around the world.
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