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Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) will join a host of civil society organisations in Maputo, Mozambique for the fourth African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD IV), taking place from 28 to 30 August 2024.
AfCoDD IV is being organised by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), together with the Nawi Afrifem Macroeconomic Collective (Nawi), the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD), and the Stop the Bleeding Campaign. The conference brings together African citizens to discuss and debate Africa’s path towards economic, political, and social self-determination.
The theme for AfCoDD IV is ‘Africa's Debt Crisis: Pan-African Feminist Perspectives and Alternatives’ which seeks to recognise the critical need to address the deficit in alternative proposals and distributional impacts of the debt crisis, as well as the entrenchment of colonial extractive economic modelling that perpetuate the subjugation of African women.
It challenges long-held views on macroeconomic modelling and offers a feminist lens that exposes a fractured global debt and financial architecture that prioritises profits over people, with African women disproportionately affected.
TJNA will be participating as follows:
Session 4: ‘Feminist Approaches in Transforming the Global Financial Architecture - Lessons from Tax and Trade’
Date: 29 August 2024
This session will unpack feminist experiences in pushing for the transformation of the international tax and trade regime and the lessons that can be picked from these experiences and utilised in transforming the global debt architecture and particularly pushing for a UN international debt framework.
Specifically, it will;
- Unpack the political economy of trade, tax and debt management including institutions such as the WTO, the G20, the OECD and multilateral lenders, highlighting the imbalance of power in the decision-making processes, the dispute-resolution processes, and the role played by the private sector
- Highlight African feminist interests in each of these regimes and the status of their success
- Highlight the next steps in aligning the international debt framework with African feminist principles and human rights
For more information about our participation at AfCoDD IV, please contact Ishmael Zulu at izulu@taxjusticeafrica.net.