If you read this op ed and are interested to know more about what human rights NGOs *are* doing about economic inequality, here are some resources: 1/n
The Lima Declaration on Tax Justice & Human Rights, signed by 100+ organizations; calls for tax policies that "end structural discrimination rather than entrench growing inequalities" cesr.org/sites/default/… 2/n
The Bogota Declaration on Tax Justice for Women's Rights globaltaxjustice.org/sites/default/… 3/n
The women's rights NGO AWID awid.org/priority-areas… 5/n
Numerous NGOs, including @ActionAid @CIVICUSalliance @CIDSE @amnesty issued a "joint inequality alliance statement" pledging to work to "tackle the root causes of inequality" actionaid.org/2016/01/civil-… 6/n
More on @ActionAid work on tax and women's rights actionaid.org/sites/files/ac…
Hajikami's work on budgets in Kenya hakijamii.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/cit… 8/n
Oxfam has done significant work on economic inequality issues: see e.g. "An economy for the 99%" business-humanrights.org/sites/default/… & policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/a… & cesr.org/human-rights-e… 9/n
Also see resources by Righting Finance rightingfinance.org/?p=1636 10/n
The NGOs CELS, Funda, ACIJ & others reported on fiscal policy and human rights: cesr.org/sites/default/… 11/n
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy's program on economic inequality carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/economic-justi… 12/n
The Global Alliance for Tax Justice globaltaxjustice.org 13/n
And the incredibly important work of The Center for Economic & Social Rights cesr.org/iachr-calls-st… & business-humanrights.org/en/leaving-no-… & civicus.org/images/documen… & cesr.org/fighting-fisca… 14/n
Also, for an alternative take on the "crisis" view of human rights, see the Sikkink chapter in new @CesaRodriGaravi book -- the whole thing can be downloaded here dejusticia.org/en/dejusticia-…
It is important not to overly focus on what some big western NGOs do or don't do when analyzing "the human rights movement" 16/n
There's much to be critical of in human rights practice. There's a *lot* more economic justice work that could be done. Close engagement with the work that is happening globally is necessary to assess the possibilities and limits of the human rights frame 17/17
