A visual summary of the 2025 Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights.
From March 7 – 21st, 2025, tax justice campaigners, women’s rights organisations, grassroots movements, trade unions, and other civil society members came together during the 9th Global Days of Action on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights to demand “Progressive Taxation for an Inclusive and Just Social Organisation of Care!”
With a programme of activities including webinars, marches, parallel events to the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women, and a social media campaign, we united as diverse movements with concrete demands.
Our Shared Demands
Maureen Mburu, GATJ Tax and Gender Lead & Africa Campaigns Coordinator, explains why GATJ, our members, and partners held this campaign here. Read more in the two blogs breaking down the meaning behind progressive taxation and an inclusive and just social organisation of care.
Throughout the campaign, GATJ highlighted the 5 demands with blogs written by members of the Tax and Gender Working Group. Read the blogs here:
- Progressive taxation for a gender-transformative social organisation of care
- Incorporate gender-transformative provisions into the UN Tax Convention
- Increase public investment in care public systems
- Acknowledge and value unpaid care work in economic systems
- Ensure gender equality in tax systems and public services
Highlights From Some GDOA Events
Campaign Launch
On Friday, March 7th, GATJ, GATJ’s regional networks, and partners from our Tax and Gender Working Group, came together to launch the campaign. The webinar featured a panel with members from each region of GATJ and a keynote from Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, Director of UNRISD. Watch the launch above or read the blog on the highlights from the launch event here.
GATJ’s members also shared a reaction to the launch of the campaign. Read the press release here.
International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, members from Manila to Paris took to the streets to demand governments and multilateral institutions make taxes work for women.
Towards a Gender-Transformative UN Tax Convention
GATJ and our members held a webinar on the need to include gender in all relevant provisions of the UN Tax Convention. Watch the webinar above or read the blog on the highlights from the event here.
Collectively Building New Narratives on Care
Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina, Latindadd, INESC, TJN, and GATJ held an event on the need to adopt fairer tax systems that guarantee sufficient resources for social and care policies. Watch the close of the campaign above or read the blog here.
Connections Between Fiscal Justice, Care, and Climate Justice
Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina, Latindadd, and GATJ held an event on the impact of the extractivist model on the most vulnerable communities, especially women and girls, who bear a disproportionate burden of unpaid care work. Watch the close of the campaign above or read the blog here.
Taking Stock of Tax Justice: 30 years since the Beijing Declaration
GATJ, Akina Mama wa Afrika, and FEMNET brought together feminists and women’s rights activists to reflect on the progress made on women’s rights during the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Watch the discussion above or read the blog here.
Campaign Close
GATJ, our regional networks, and partners from our Tax and Gender Working Group, came together to close the campaign and reflect upon the activities while charting a path forward. Watch the close of the campaign above or read the blog here.
What’s Next?
Join the Tax and Gender Working Group to shape future campaigns and policy advocacy actions to advance a feminist tax justice agenda in the weeks, months and years to come.
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About GATJ
The Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) is a South-led global coalition in the tax justice movement. Together we work for a world where progressive and redistributive tax policies counteract inequalities within and between countries, and generate the public funding needed to ensure essential services and human rights. GATJ coordinates the Tax and Gender Working Group (TGWG) and co-coordinates the Tax Justice Workstream of the CS FfD Mechanism.
About the TGWG
The TGWG was established by GATJ in 2016 as a dedicated platform for its members and committed partners to directly engage in campaign and policy advocacy efforts on tax and gender issues. It brings together grassroots movements, women’s rights organisations, trade unions, non-governmental organisations, and civil society organisations.
The TGWG has collectively coordinated the Global Days of Actions on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights, as well as the Framing Feminist Taxation Guides (volume 1 and volume 2), which provide guidance and recommendations for policy-making and advocacy that can influence and change our current economic and tax systems for a feminist future. In addition to this, members collaborate on opinion pieces, policy briefs, workshops, trainings, and actively participate in global, regional and national policy spaces.
