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sarahsaadoun.bsky.social
Sr researcher & advocate on economic justice, human rights watch.
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Every Monday, gonna start posting @hrw.org publications on economic justice from the previous week. Topics this week: US aid cuts. Using public support programs as a tool of monitoring and control. Wielding blasphemy laws in land disputes. The Olympics and workers rights. Links below.

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Experts discussing economic indicators may sound like a technical or academic debate. But, as @astroehlein writes in @hrw’s Daily Brief today, the numbers our governments use to describe progress have a major impact on our rights & our lives. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Think I'll make this the hope for economic justice account, bc here's another one (also following a US walkout 🤔): UN Human Rights Council session to replace GDP as the be-all-and-end-all economic indicator. HRW's Sylvain Aubry on new indicators that center human rights www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Last week negotiations began on the first-ever UN tax treaty. My piece on what happened & why this is an historic opportunity for human rights www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

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The UN tax treaty negotiations are revealing something deep about global corruption. It’s often used to blame countries for their development gaps, but African countries are begging for a protocol on illicit financial flows & the UK & EU - home to the world’s top tax havens -are resisting mightily.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Good thread on state positions as negotiations open for a new UN tax treaty. Demand for “consensus” decisionmaking is really a question of power & voice. It sounds good & is a worthy goal, but if required it gives a veto to powerful govts that have long protected corporate interests over tax justice

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This practical guide to G20 advocacy on economic justice from @cesr.bsky.social is an excellent resource, esp for human rights orgs new to these issues. Flawed as it is, the G20 reps 85% of global GDP. With South Africa as president, there’s a chance to build on Brazil’s achievements on tax justice.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

New analysis from my @hrw.org colleague @amrmagdi.bsky.social on education spending in Egypt declining in real terms, hitting just 1.7% of GDP & 5.3% of expenditures. Education represents a country's future. The cost of global austerity will be felt for generations.

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Even the G20 now recognizes that inequality is a serious global problem, but efforts to address it are failing miserably. I team up w/ Gene Leon, ED of Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity, in a new oped to propose a development model that centers ppl & planet opiniojuris.org/2025/01/13/n...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment