Event description
This hybrid event will be hosted in Cartagena, Colombia, and will be the opening session of the civil society days of the first Latin American and Caribbean summit on ‘inclusive, sustainable, and equitable global taxation’. This major event, jointly led by Colombia, Chile and Brazil, represents a significant step towards a common position on tax cooperation at the regional level, and to inform participants’ engagement in the UN intergovernmental discussions on a new international framework for tax.
Leading international and regional speakers will reflect on progress towards a UN tax convention, and on the aspirations for the Latin American and Caribbean summit. Confirmed speakers include the Colombian Deputy minister of finance, María Fernanda Valdés, H.E. Irene Ovonji-Odida from the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows out of Africa (and chair of Tax Justice Network, and an ICRICT commissioner), which provides the first example of a regional process to define common positions in these areas, and which underpins the African leadership of the current UN process towards a new framework.
The civil society days of the summit are organised jointly by Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudio Sobre el Desarrollo (CIEDUR), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Foro Social Panamazónico, the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), the Independent Commission for Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), the Human Rights Principles in Fiscal Policy Initiative, Latindadd, Oxfam, Public Services International, Red de Trabajo Fiscal, Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe, and Tax Justice Network.