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Impact Case Studies<\/h1>\n

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  1. Alex Maitland, OXFAM \u2013How much have billionaires made during Davos this week?<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Global Initiative on Economic and Social rights (2025)\u00a0<\/span>Prioritising People in Fiscal Policy: Challenging Austerity, Reclaiming Public Services and Upholding Human Rights in Kenya<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Global Initiative on Economic and Social rights (2025)\u00a0<\/span>Prioritising People in Fiscal Policy: Challenging Austerity, Reclaiming Public Services and Upholding Human Rights in Ghana<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Action Aid, The Tax and Education Alliance Financing the Future: Delivering Quality Education as Envisioned in Sustainable Development Goal 4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Open Letter to Ministers of Finance and Governors of Central Banks, the Governors and Alternate Governors of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, and the Leaders of the International Financial Institutions<\/a>\n

    <\/a>(Used ACETs\u00a0Reforming the Global Architecture data<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET)\u00a0<\/span>Reforming the Global Architecture<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Weathering the storm: poverty, climate change and social protection<\/a>: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and humanrights, Olivier De Schutter<\/li>\n
  8. Financing Social Protection Floors: Contribution of the Special Rapporteur to Financing for Development 2025<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. An assessment of the impact of gaps in global governance on children\u2019s rights in Malawi in the context of the climate emergency\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Submission to CESCR \u2013 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 76 Session (Sep. 2024)<\/li>\n
  10. Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Ireland\u2019s fourth periodic report by the\u00a0<\/span>Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2024)<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. An analysis of the impact of debt service on human rights \u2013\u00a0GRADE DEBT Briefs<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(August 2024)<\/li>\n
  12. Debt Justice \u2013\u00a0<\/span>The Real Debt Crisis A Decade of Austerity\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Joint Submission to the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt \u2013 Current challenges to financing for development, including education.<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Submission to\u00a0the Universal Periodic Review of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland<\/a>\u00a0to highlight the cross-border impact of the UK\u2019s tax policies.<\/li>\n
  15. Submission to the\u00a0Special \u00a0\u00a0Rapporteur on the Right to Education.<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Using Tax systems and policy: Crucial for good health and good governance\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>A briefing Paper from the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health<\/li>\n
  17. The Principles of Tax Justice and the Climate Crisis in Africa\u2019s Resource-Rich Nations<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Over 18 million girls missing school in Africa as continent loses USD29 billion in education funding through flawed taxation<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Breaking out of the Bubble to Transform Education Financing<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Joint Civil Society submission in respect of the CERDs review of the UK<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Litany of failure: the OECD\u2019s stewardship of international taxation<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Submission to the UN Secretary-General Tax Report 2023: Promotion of inclusive and effective tax cooperation at the United Nations<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Universities of St Andrews and Leicester \u2013 Input to the 2023 UN Tax Report.<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Tax Justice & Human Rights:\u00a0 The 4 Rs and the realisation of rights.<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. UN calls on Netherlands to account for tax policy impact on child rights.<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Second submission<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>to the UNCRC on\u00a0<\/span>Ireland\u2019s Responsibility for the Impacts of Cross-border Tax Abuse on the Realisation of Children\u2019s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>by a coalition of advocacy organisations using\u00a0<\/span>new GRADE evidence<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in 2022<\/li>\n
  27. First submission<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>to the UNCRC on\u00a0Ireland\u2019s Responsibility for the Impacts of Cross Border Tax Abuse on the Realisation of Children\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by a coalition of advocacy organisations in 2020<\/li>\n
  28. Submission<\/a>\u00a0to the Independent Expert on Foreign Debt by the Tax and Education Alliance, the \u00a0\u00a0Tax Justice Network, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Action Aid, and the \u00a0\u00a0Global Campaign for Education and Education International.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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