Today’s activities and tomorrow’s closing event


** Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights 2024
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Campaign Dispatch #3
Happening Today | ICYMI Highlights | Closing Event
Happening Today

Today, Thursday March 21st, we call attention to tax transparency and accountability to curb illicit financial flows and an inclusive and democratic global tax cooperation for a UN tax convention that contributes towards gender justice.

Join us on Twitter ([link removed]) , Facebook ([link removed]) and LinkedIn ([link removed]) by posting the demand cards ([link removed]) along with the message:

“🔎🚺 We advocate for gender analyses of tax exemptions and incentives to ensure fairness and transparency in tax policies. “

“🌐 The #UNTaxConvention should promote gender justice and equitable international tax governance.”

Consult the campaign toolkit ([link removed]) for more ideas on what to post.

Our Demands

Today, we call attention to the urgency of governments adopting progressive tax measures to finance public services, while, at the same time, reducing the burden of regressive taxes on formal and informal caregivers.
Join us on Twitter ([link removed]) , Facebook ([link removed]) and LinkedIn ([link removed]) by posting the demand cards ([link removed]) along with the message:

“Governments must 📈 increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations to finance the cost of quality public services, easing the burden of 🧹🍲👩🏾‍🍼unpaid care work on women. #MakeTaxesWorkForWomen”

Consult the campaign toolkit ([link removed]) for more ideas on what to post.


Today’s Events

The Nexus of Taxation and Gender with a focus on Social Policies
Webinar organised by Transparency and Accountability in Totality-Follow Taxes
Time: 11am - 1pm CET | Register here ([link removed])

Taxing for Care: Towards Green and Caring Economies
Podcast episode produced by Akina Mama wa Afrika
Time: 2pm - 3pm CET | Follow @amwaafrika ([link removed]) for more information.

Gender Transformative Social protection financing for women and girls’ economic empowerment
Webinar organised by GATJ, FEMNET, Akina Mama wa Afrika, SEATINI Uganda, AFRODAD
Time: 3 - 4:30 pm CET | Register here ([link removed])


ICYMI Highlights

Yesterday’s Framing Feminist Taxation for Financing for Care webinar was the highlight of our third camping day.

Commenting on the interaction between care and the tax system in Africa, Asia and Latin America, speakers shared early insights from case studies that will compose in the third volume of the forthcoming Framing Feminist Taxation Guide.


Below are some of the notable quotes from the panel.

Noelia Mendez, DAWN
“The unpaid care work performed by households, along with the necessary conditions to carry it out and self-care, is overlooked and undervalued in traditional economic theory. Nevertheless, it plays a systemic role in the economy by ensuring that the workforce renews its energy to reinvest it back into the market. Although there is no direct economic compensation, it makes a significant contribution.”

Riva Jalipa, Amnesty International
“Domestic care work in the Philippines is unique. 12% of all households have or have had one of their family members working overseas. This contributes to 10% of the GDP and from 2 million foreign workers, 200,000 are domestic workers. So, the Philippines is contributing to a cheaper domestic labour force externally which is helping its own economy. But the negative effect of that is that it weakens the social fabric and has poor physical and mental outcomes. A national care policy in the Philippines would be both an economic growth and poverty reduction”

Maria Julia Eliosoff, FES Argentina
“[The social organisation of care in Argentina] is doubly unjust because it is both feminised and is mainly concentrated within households. The role of the State is extremely subsidiary, attempting to patch up gaps where households cannot reach and heavily relying on community involvement.”

Margarita Lopez, PSI
“For the first time in Colombia, we have a progressive government where we can influence the construction of public care services. However, the challenge is to ensure that these services have the necessary funding and resources, as well as the labor rights we need to guarantee decent work for caregivers, rather than the precarious work we are currently witnessing.”

📹 Watch the full event recording here ([link removed]) for more insights from the panel.


Yesterday’s Demand Spotlights

Gloria Mills, PSI World Women's Committee Chair, explains how the burden of taxation is falling on women and low-wage workers, and notes the urgency for recognition of care work and women's experience in tax policy formulation.

🎥Watch her full video explainer for campaign demand #2 below.

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Herni Ramdlaningrum from PRAKARSA highlights the crucial role played by both formal and informal care workers in our society, and the need to reduce the unfair tax burden placed on them.
🎥Watch her full video explainer for campaign demand #3 below.
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Closing event

Tomorrow, Friday March 22th, at 2pm CET, we will celebrate and reflect on the collective campaign efforts, and mark the unveiling of the new Tax and Gender Working Group Strategy.


Register to join ([link removed])

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Activity registration form ([link removed])

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