Fiscal Policy and Human Rights in the Americas
INVITATION TO THEMATIC HEARING
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Thursday 22 October 2015
2.00pm – 2:45pm
Padilha Vidal Room - Level TL – Building GSB
Organization of American States
1889 F Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20006
This invitation can be downloaded in pdf format here
Fiscal
policy has great potential to redress the problems of poverty and
inequality in Latin America. But realizing this potential requires
conducting fiscal policy based on human rights, whose international and
regional norms oblige states to generate and deploy the maximum of
available resources in a manner that is equitable, sufficient and
non-discriminatory, with the ultimate goal of achieving the full
realization of these rights. This thematic session will provide
information and evidence of the way fiscal policy in the countries of
the region affects human rights, and will propose new measures to
promote accountability for fiscal matters within the framework of the
Inter-American System of Human Rights.
This session will be live streamed (in English and Spanish) at: http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/default.asp
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