Liz Nelson

Director, Advocacy and Research

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Liz Nelson is Director of Advocacy and Research. Before joining the Tax Justice Network, Liz worked as Development Manager at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in the University of Oxford’s Said Business School. Previously she managed and developed housing services for vulnerable and ‘at risk’ adults and families for twenty years. Liz studied Human Rights and Development Management from the Open University’s Global Programme in Development Management and Women’s Human Rights at the London School of Economics (LSE). Liz is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.

Liz Nelson
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Flags of Countries in front of the United Nations Office at Geneva
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🔴Live: UN tax negotiations

By Tax Justice Network ■ 25 April 2024 ■ 23 min READ
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CEDAW chimes differently to ECJ ruling on human rights and financial transparency

By Liz Nelson ■ 20 December 2022 ■ 3 min READ
Climate Justice Now poster at rally
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Recruiting two new posts: strengthening our work on climate justice, equalities & human rights

By Liz Nelson ■ 3 November 2022 ■ 2 min READ
Pedestrian street and clocktower in Bern, Switzerland
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UN committee hears evidence of harms of Swiss financial secrecy on women’s rights

By Liz Nelson ■ 17 October 2022 ■ 2 min READ
Yellow pencil against blue and yellow backdrop
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To protect children’s right to education, governments must fight tax abuse

By Liz Nelson ■ 28 September 2022 ■ 3 min READ
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Policies not pledges will protect women from the two-headed climate and care crisis

By Liz Nelson ■ 8 March 2022 ■ 3 min READ
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The human right to care and tax justice

By Liz Nelson ■ 10 December 2021 ■ 2 min READ
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Right to education must be backed by tax policy

By Liz Nelson ■ 29 July 2021 ■ 4 min READ
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Tax justice cuts through every struggle for justice: conference recap

By Liz Nelson ■ 23 July 2021 ■ 6 min READ
Human rights and the four 'Rs' of Tax Justice
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Tax abuse and human rights: NEW REPORT

By Liz Nelson ■ 6 July 2021 ■ 2 min READ
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Call for papers: Human rights and the 4 “Rs” of tax justice – Tax Justice Network annual conference

By Liz Nelson ■ 17 February 2021 ■ 5 min READ
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Tobacconomics: Measuring the value of cigarette taxes

By Liz Nelson ■ 15 December 2020 ■ 3 min READ
Women queuing in a line wearing face masks
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Women need real social protection that goes beyond the aspirational

By Liz Nelson ■ 30 November 2020 ■ 4 min READ
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Imperial inequalities: states, empires, taxation & reparations: online conference

By Liz Nelson ■ 26 November 2020 ■ < 1
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Raising the voices of communities from Asia

By Liz Nelson ■ 2 October 2020 ■ 3 min READ
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In Apple’s victory lies a defeat for women’s rights

By Liz Nelson ■ 17 July 2020 ■ 2 min READ
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Moving beyond poverty begins with tax justice

By Liz Nelson ■ 6 July 2020 ■ 3 min READ
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Generation Equality – Calling young feminists for tax justice

By Liz Nelson ■ 6 July 2020 ■ 2 min READ
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COVID-19: Progressive Tax Measures to Realize Rights

By Liz Nelson ■ 11 June 2020 ■ < 1
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Women & Tax: can you help with this survey?

By Liz Nelson ■ 20 May 2020 ■ 2 min READ
Emergency sign outside a hospital
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VIRTUAL EVENT: Health versus Wealth? Tax and transparency in the age of Covid-19

By Liz Nelson ■ 13 May 2020 ■ < 1
Close up of an Indian Rupee banknote
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COVID-19: India’s self-employed women, rights and a sustainable response

By Liz Nelson ■ 11 May 2020 ■ 5 min READ ■ 1 comments
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A Feminist Response to COVID-19

By Liz Nelson ■ 6 May 2020 ■ 2 min READ
Chain locked fence
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When the factory gates are bolted shut, women need country by country reporting

By Liz Nelson ■ 2 April 2020 ■ 2 min READ
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Make Taxes Work For Women

By Liz Nelson ■ 8 March 2020 ■ < 1
The UN Secretariat Headquarters building in New York
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Gender Equality: Can Taxation Make It A Reality?

By Liz Nelson ■ 4 March 2020 ■ 2 min READ
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Reviving commitments to women’s equality for UNCSW 64/Beijing+25

By Liz Nelson ■ 17 January 2020 ■ 3 min READ
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“The longer we wait, the greater the loss of life and damage to the world economy”

By Liz Nelson ■ 16 October 2019 ■ 2 min READ
Trans flag
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Joint statement of trans solidarity in feminist tax justice advocacy

By Liz Nelson ■ 27 March 2019 ■ 2 min READ
Black and white photo of a blurred people crossing a road
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Do women go unseen in tax justice?

By Liz Nelson ■ 8 March 2019 ■ 3 min READ
UN Independent Expert Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
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UN expert: Don’t shy away from human rights impacts of fiscal reforms

By Liz Nelson ■ 21 January 2019 ■ 2 min READ
woman engineer working on engine in factory wearing a heard helmet
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Taxing for ‘true equality’: EU adopts tax and gender proposals

By Liz Nelson ■ 16 January 2019 ■ 2 min READ
The House of Commons completely empty
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Too little interest, too little political will to address inequalities and human rights?

By Liz Nelson ■ 11 January 2019 ■ 3 min READ
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Women continue to take the lions share of austerity

By Liz Nelson ■ 30 October 2018 ■ 2 min READ
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Public Services and Economic Injustice in Tax Break Ireland

By Liz Nelson ■ 7 August 2018 ■ 2 min READ
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The damage of International Monetary Fund ‘conditionality’: call for urgent rethink

By Liz Nelson ■ 6 July 2018 ■ 7 min READ
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Guest blog: Illicit Financial Flows: Damaging the foundations of justice

By Liz Nelson ■ 23 May 2018 ■ 3 min READ
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Economic reforms and austerity: A ‘wicked problem’ impacting on women

By Liz Nelson ■ 13 April 2018 ■ 3 min READ
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Tax Justice is a feminist issue: call on governments to act

By Liz Nelson ■ 8 March 2018 ■ 2 min READ
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Conference Report: Platform for Collaboration on Tax First Global Conference on Taxation and SDGs 14 -16th February, 2018

By Liz Nelson ■ 21 February 2018 ■ 3 min READ ■ 1 comments
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The Bogota Declaration on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights

By Liz Nelson ■ 7 December 2017 ■ 2 min READ ■ 1 comments
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#ParadisePapers: UN human rights experts react: States must act against abusive tax conduct

By Liz Nelson ■ 13 November 2017 ■ 4 min READ