Financial Transaction Tax: A Human Rights Imperative – A Bottom-Up Approach to Righting Financial Regulation, March 2012.
Part of a series of Briefing Notes produced by Center of Concern, AWID, Center for Economic and Social Rights, Civicus, DAWN, ESCR-Net, Ibase30, Social Watch.
Where the global financial crisis has brought about the loss of millions of jobs, socialized debt accrued by financial corporations and now risks significant human rights harm through wide-ranging austerity packages, financial transaction taxes are essential tools to providing the means for governments to protect and fulfill the human rights of their people.
Contact: Aldo Caliari, Director of Rethinking Bretton Woods Project, Center of Concern, aldo(at)coc.org
Center of Concern is CIDSE’s member in the United States.