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Isabel Ortiz GSJ

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Director Global Social Justice; former Director at the United Nations' ILO and UNICEF http://www.isabelortiz.info/

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La Cumbre Social Mundial en Doha: Tiempo de actuar DOHA – Qatar acogió del 4 al 6 de noviembre la Segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Social. Según las Naciones Unidas, participaron más de 40 Jefes de Estado y de gobierno, 230 ministros y altas au...

Tambien publicado en espanol:

ipsnoticias.net/2025/11/la-c...

18.11.2025 14:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Role: End Austerity Campaign Coordinator - End Austerity FLEXIBILITY: Full Time Introduction In October 2020, six months into the pandemic, more than 500 civil society organizations and academics from all over the world published an open letter calling...

New Role, come work for us at End Austerity! endausterity.org/new-role-end...

23.01.2026 16:48 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Resisting the Rule of the Rich | Oxfam International

Oxfam new 2026 #inequality report: Resisting the Rule of the Rich: Defending Freedom Against Billionaire Power
www.oxfam.org/en/research/...
The super rich have built political power by buying politics, investing in legitimizing elite power (dominating press+AI) and directly accessing institutions.

19.01.2026 01:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and near...

Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha

#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/388rarn8

13.11.2025 07:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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La Cumbre Social Mundial en Doha: Tiempo de actuar DOHA – Qatar acogió del 4 al 6 de noviembre la Segunda Cumbre Mundial sobre Desarrollo Social. Según las Naciones Unidas, participaron más de 40 Jefes de Estado y de gobierno, 230 ministros y altas au...

Tambien publicado en espanol:

ipsnoticias.net/2025/11/la-c...

18.11.2025 14:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and near...

Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha

#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/388rarn8

13.11.2025 07:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Great morning presenting at the Yale University Global Justice Conference. Huge thanks to Thomas Pogge and the organizers for facilitating this global dialogue

#GlobalSocialJustice #EndAusterity

26.10.2025 17:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Proud to have contributed to the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

26.10.2025 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 The welfare state is under pressure globally. Cuts to social services are rising while 2 billion people live without protection.

From poverty, inequality to #ClimateChange + migration, can #WSSD2 in Doha this Nov tackle the biggest challenges of our time?

👉 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...

16.09.2025 18:26 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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🌍 What does #SocialDevelopment mean in the 21st century?

UNRISD launches Beyond Copenhagen—a new think piece series rethinking justice, policy and progress ahead of #WSSD in Qatar.

Start here: www.unrisd.org/beyond-copen...

04.06.2025 14:39 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Happening now: The Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s 25th Anniversary Conference at Columbia University. Scholars, policymakers, and practitioners are gathering to reflect on 25 years of research and impact. #IPD25

Watch the livestream here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/9536714802...

12.09.2025 14:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Just created my first Feed on the global south:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

Matches any post with #GlobalSouth hashtag, or the phrase "global south", or from my also recently created Global South list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Please follow/share. Also let me know of people/orgs to add to the List.

21.09.2025 22:35 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
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From The Visible Hands 👉 ow.ly/Ve3550WE8c2 to Targeting&Universalism 👉 ow.ly/bmt050WE8c5, we celebrate 62 years of #IdeasThatShape generations.

Thanks @isabelortiz.bsky.social to reminds us why innovative research matters, not just for now, but for the future.

#UNRISD62

11.08.2025 21:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.

Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀

This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇

tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...

15.07.2025 09:55 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
A large, diverse crowd of protesters gathers beneath las Setas in Seville, Spain, holding colorful signs and banners advocating for economic justice, climate action, and global equity. Prominent signs include messages like "Dignity Not Debt" and "Global Economic Justice Now." A large inflatable globe is also visible. Overlaid at the top of the image is bold white text reading: "FfD4: JOB NOT DONE!"

A large, diverse crowd of protesters gathers beneath las Setas in Seville, Spain, holding colorful signs and banners advocating for economic justice, climate action, and global equity. Prominent signs include messages like "Dignity Not Debt" and "Global Economic Justice Now." A large inflatable globe is also visible. Overlaid at the top of the image is bold white text reading: "FfD4: JOB NOT DONE!"

#FfD4 is far from the milestone for global economic governance reform it could have been.

For #CivilSociety, it's clear that the job is not done. We need real reform, not a watered-down consensus.

Read our analysis 👉 www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not...

11.07.2025 08:24 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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The Welfare State and Its Discontents | Daniela Gabor A dispatch from Financing for Development in Seville

"A document that examines in detail the foreign and domestic, public and private resources that could finance development does not consider, not even once, the most important institution of public money creation: the central bank."

NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.

03.07.2025 14:27 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems
#FFD4People

17.07.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214

12.05.2025 14:55 👍 87 🔁 60 💬 2 📌 2
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Dirty money’s hiding spots: How corruption funds disappear overseas -… How dirty money disappears overseas and corruption-linked African assets are hidden in wealthy nations

Instead of building schools and hospitals, billions in public funds from Africa vanish into offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies.

We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0

18.12.2024 09:00 👍 34 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 1

Why wouldn't we want multinational corporations to pay their share of taxes? It's mind-boggling. #FfD4

03.07.2025 13:39 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
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For a decade, we've been told blended finance would turn "billions into trillions." The reality? Just $15 billion annually—less than 0.4% of the $4 trillion needed for SDGs.

My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...

05.07.2025 07:00 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social Dimensions NEW YORK, Apr 24 (IPS) - The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) will bring world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how to finance a better fu...

www.globalissues.org/news/2025/04...

17.07.2025 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems
#FFD4People

17.07.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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We can’t ignore the human rights impacts of budget cuts & austerity.

As Attiya Waris put it: “There’s blood on the budget lines.”

Check out her new think tank working to reimagine global financial governance: house-of-fiscal-wisdom.com

02.07.2025 13:19 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A Tax Victory for Multinationals Over People Joseph E. Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo and Jayati Ghosh lament the G7’s decision to exempt US corporations from the global minimum tax rate agreed in 2021.

The G7’s decision to let US multinationals off the hook weakens even that the modest floor of a 15% global tax and sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. A @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece with @jayatighosh.bsky.social and Jose Antonio Ocampo. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

30.06.2025 15:48 👍 20 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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Powerful @endausterity.bsky.social panel at #FFD4 on alternatives to budget cuts for investing in universal social protection & public services.

The most common austerity measure? Slashing social protection—replacing universal programs w narrow, means-tested safety nets. @isabelortiz.bsky.social

02.07.2025 13:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

It was a great privilege to present our Jubilee Report on Sovereign Debt findings and recommendations to Cardinal Parolin. We look forward to the work we will continue to do to redesign global debt architecture. Countries must be able to strengthen critical areas like health and education.

23.06.2025 11:36 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Countries are hobbled by debt, funneling money to creditors instead of to health, education or infrastructure. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @martinguzman.bsky.social headed a Jubilee Commission report that suggests remedies. Worth a read or a watch

24.06.2025 14:10 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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The Illusion of Consensus: FfD4 and the Fight for Systemic Change - menafem movement The outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) was adopted yesterday in a moment that is already being framed as a triumph of multilateralism. It wasn’...

We exposes the illusion of consensus at the #FfD4 conference where multilateralism was not saved, but sanitized.
From a U.Swalkout to behind-the-scenes sabotage by Global North allies, Read :
🔗 menafemmovement.org/the-illusion...

#FfD4 #DebtJustice #TaxJustice #ClimateFinance #SystemicReform

18.06.2025 12:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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📢 The UN’s new #FfD4 outcome doc is 38 pages of UN-speak.

GPF Europe’s @bodoellmers.bsky.social breaks it down: 8 key takeaways on #DRM, private finance, trade, debt, data + more, focusing on what might actually lead to action.

🔗 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...

23.06.2025 10:47 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0