A landmark recognition of tax and human rights
Blog / 3rd March 2025The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has just issued a much-awaited and historic statement: for the first time, it explicitly recognises that states must tackle inequality and guarantee rights through fair tax policies.
$300 billion yearly to wipe out poverty is affordable. Here’s how…
Blog / 13th February 2025This amount, estimated as the amount needed to set up basic social protection schemes in the world’s lowest-income countries, is affordable for the international community, argues Olivier De Schutter.
2025: The year we cancel debt and choose hope
Blog / 28th January 2025This year, campaigners and activists from all over the world are coming together in the biggest global movement for debt cancellation in twenty-five years, writes Wiz Baines.
Developing countries are being choked by debt: This could be the year of breaking free
Blog / 10th January 2025The resolution of the debt crisis needs a determined and organized mass movement of people—and the movement is rising. Debt distress need not be destiny, writes Ben Phillips.