Illicit Financial Flows Undermining Gender Justice
Document Type:
International article
Date of publication:
01/12/2016
Date of publication:
December 2016
Author:
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
Publisher:
Friederich Ebert Stiftung
Language:
English
Notes:
This paper explores some of the links between tax- and gender justice at the global
level by highlighting two central ways in which illicit financial flows and gender
justice are connected.
First, through the effects of tax evasion and avoidance and secondly, through the
role of financial secrecy jurisdictions and global networks of facilitators which enable
illicit financial flows which result from trafficking in women.
The paper argues that confronting and dismantling the global enablers and secrecy
jurisdictions will be beneficial not only for transparency and global equality but also
for achieving greater gender equality and the respect, protection and fulfilment of
the human rights of women and girls.
The analysis ends with a list of policy recommendations for the global as well as the
national level and thus provides guidance for combating tax evasion, avoidance and
dodging, as well as money laundering derived from criminal activities.