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News and Events, Publications, Reports & Briefings, Submissions
Submission to the OHCHR on the impact of IFI conditionalities
In a new submission to the OHCHR, CESR argues that IFI conditionalities are not neutral technical prescriptions. Austerity, cuts to public services, subsidy removal and regressive taxation are political choices with profound consequences for human rights.
Financing rights: CESR, ISER and GRADE submit evidence to OHCHR
This joint submission to the OHCHR, made by CESR together with the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights and the Government Revenue and Development Estimations initiative, argues that the way resources are raised, distributed and spent is central to states’ human rights obligations.
News and Events, Publications, Submissions
Measuring what matters for people and the planet
UN Submission: As governments develop a new approach through the UN’s Beyond GDP intergovernmental process, CESR has submitted recommendations for a framework grounded in human rights, gender justice and ecological well-being.
UN Tax Convention must put human rights into action
CESR has submitted recommendations to the Co-Leads of Workstream I on the Zero Draft of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation.
CESR and allies urge CERD to address how UK's colonial legacy fuels racial inequality through modern tax havens
CESR, along with Tax Justice Network, ESCR-Net, Movement Law Lab, and other allies, recently made a submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for its review of the UK.
Strengthening the human rights dimension of the UNTC: CESR and allies weigh in on Terms of Reference Zero Draft
Our second submission to the UNTC’s Terms of Reference Committee, with a diverse group of allies, emphasizes the need for human rights to be explicitly integrated into the UNTC framework
CESR and allies send submission urging human rights inclusion in UNTC terms of reference
CESR, in collaboration with a worldwide network of civil society organizations, has presented a collective submission to the Ad Hoc Committee tasked with drafting the Terms of Reference for the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNTC).
CESR's Submission to UN’s Independent Expert on Foreign Debt
We urge Prof. Attiya Waris to investigate the linkages between rising debt, tax systems, governance, and climate action.
Submission to the OECD regarding the tax challenges of digitalization and possible solutions
Submission by the Initiative for Human Rights Principles and Guidelines in Fiscal Policy in Latin America to the OECD.
Joint Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for South Africa’s first period report, 64th Session, October 2018
South Africa submission explores the State's obligation to use “maximum available resources" and argues against austerity.
Full submission to UN CESCR for Spain review, March 2018
El informe denuncia los recortes que privan a la salud, la vivienda, el trabajo y los derechos de salud sexual y reproductiva.
Switzerland's financial secrecy scrutinized under human rights spotlight
UN submission: A coalition of civil society organizations has called on CEDAW to examine the extra-territorial impacts of Switzerland’s financial legislation on women’s rights.
Publications, Reports & Briefings, Submissions
Fiscal policy and human rights in the Americas
For the first time, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has played host to a thematic hearing specifically focused on fiscal policy and human rights.
Publications, Reports & Briefings, Submissions
Egypt: new report brings economic and social rights deficits to attention of UN
UN submission: CESR has joined forces with a broad coalition of 57 organizations on a joint parallel report taking the Egyptian government to task at the United Nations.
Taking Angola's maternal health record to task at the UN
As oil-rich Angola appears before the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, a new report throws light on maternal health failures in the country.
Maternal Mortality: Submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
CESR's submission on best practices in addressing maternal mortality (2011).
Spain: Submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CESR's joint submission with Observatori DESC on economic, social and cultural rights in Spain (2011).
Syria: Submission to UN Human Rights Council's UPR
CESR's joint submission with the Arab NGO Network for the 12th session of the Universal Periodic Review, October 2011.
Sexual and Reproductive Health: Submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
CESR's submission on the right to sexual and reproductive health, to be discussed by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights during its 45th Session on November 15, 2010.
Guatemala: Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee
Produced with Planned Parenthood abd the Multidisciplinary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Guatemala.
Guatemala: Submission to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
CESR's joint submission with Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI) to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
United States: Submission to UPR
CESR's individual and an NGO joint submission to the UPR, November 2010
Egypt: Submission to UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review
Joint submission to the OHCHR at the seventh session of the Universal Periodic Review, 2010.
Equatorial Guinea: Submission to Universal Periodic Review
CESR individual submission to the OHCHR on the occasion of the sixth session of the Universal Periodic Review, December 2009.
Cambodia: Submission to UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
CESR individual submission to sixth session of the Universal Periodic Review, December 2009
Guatemala: Submission to the UPR
Submission by CESR and Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI) to the Universal Periodic Review, May 2008
CESR Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Consideration of Report by Ecuador
Comments based on the report 'From Needs to Rights: Recognizing the Right to Health in Ecuador'.