Isabel Ortiz GSJ
@isabelortiz.bsky.social
Director Global Social Justice; former Director at the United Nations' ILO and UNICEF
http://www.isabelortiz.info/
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The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act
Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and near...
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Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
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#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
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Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act
Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and near...
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act
Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and near...
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Just published, my op-ed article on the World Social Summit in Doha
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
#SocialSummit2025 #WSSD2
@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social @endausterity.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/388rarn8
Great morning presenting at the Yale University Global Justice Conference. Huge thanks to Thomas Pogge and the organizers for facilitating this global dialogue
#GlobalSocialJustice #EndAusterity
#GlobalSocialJustice #EndAusterity
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great morning presenting at the Yale University Global Justice Conference. Huge thanks to Thomas Pogge and the organizers for facilitating this global dialogue
#GlobalSocialJustice #EndAusterity
#GlobalSocialJustice #EndAusterity
Proud to have contributed to the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Proud to have contributed to the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
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📢 The welfare state is under pressure globally. Cuts to social services are rising while 2 billion people live without protection.
From poverty, inequality to #ClimateChange + migration, can #WSSD2 in Doha this Nov tackle the biggest challenges of our time?
👉 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
From poverty, inequality to #ClimateChange + migration, can #WSSD2 in Doha this Nov tackle the biggest challenges of our time?
👉 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
September 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📢 The welfare state is under pressure globally. Cuts to social services are rising while 2 billion people live without protection.
From poverty, inequality to #ClimateChange + migration, can #WSSD2 in Doha this Nov tackle the biggest challenges of our time?
👉 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
From poverty, inequality to #ClimateChange + migration, can #WSSD2 in Doha this Nov tackle the biggest challenges of our time?
👉 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
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🌍 What does #SocialDevelopment mean in the 21st century?
UNRISD launches Beyond Copenhagen—a new think piece series rethinking justice, policy and progress ahead of #WSSD in Qatar.
Start here: www.unrisd.org/beyond-copen...
UNRISD launches Beyond Copenhagen—a new think piece series rethinking justice, policy and progress ahead of #WSSD in Qatar.
Start here: www.unrisd.org/beyond-copen...
June 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🌍 What does #SocialDevelopment mean in the 21st century?
UNRISD launches Beyond Copenhagen—a new think piece series rethinking justice, policy and progress ahead of #WSSD in Qatar.
Start here: www.unrisd.org/beyond-copen...
UNRISD launches Beyond Copenhagen—a new think piece series rethinking justice, policy and progress ahead of #WSSD in Qatar.
Start here: www.unrisd.org/beyond-copen...
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Happening now: The Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s 25th Anniversary Conference at Columbia University. Scholars, policymakers, and practitioners are gathering to reflect on 25 years of research and impact. #IPD25
Watch the livestream here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/9536714802...
Watch the livestream here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/9536714802...
September 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happening now: The Initiative for Policy Dialogue’s 25th Anniversary Conference at Columbia University. Scholars, policymakers, and practitioners are gathering to reflect on 25 years of research and impact. #IPD25
Watch the livestream here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/9536714802...
Watch the livestream here: gsb-columbia-edu.zoom.us/j/9536714802...
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Just created my first Feed on the global south:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Matches any post with #GlobalSouth hashtag, or the phrase "global south", or from my also recently created Global South list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please follow/share. Also let me know of people/orgs to add to the List.
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Matches any post with #GlobalSouth hashtag, or the phrase "global south", or from my also recently created Global South list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please follow/share. Also let me know of people/orgs to add to the List.
September 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just created my first Feed on the global south:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Matches any post with #GlobalSouth hashtag, or the phrase "global south", or from my also recently created Global South list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please follow/share. Also let me know of people/orgs to add to the List.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Matches any post with #GlobalSouth hashtag, or the phrase "global south", or from my also recently created Global South list: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please follow/share. Also let me know of people/orgs to add to the List.
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From The Visible Hands 👉 ow.ly/Ve3550WE8c2 to Targeting&Universalism 👉 ow.ly/bmt050WE8c5, we celebrate 62 years of #IdeasThatShape generations.
Thanks @isabelortiz.bsky.social to reminds us why innovative research matters, not just for now, but for the future.
#UNRISD62
Thanks @isabelortiz.bsky.social to reminds us why innovative research matters, not just for now, but for the future.
#UNRISD62
August 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
From The Visible Hands 👉 ow.ly/Ve3550WE8c2 to Targeting&Universalism 👉 ow.ly/bmt050WE8c5, we celebrate 62 years of #IdeasThatShape generations.
Thanks @isabelortiz.bsky.social to reminds us why innovative research matters, not just for now, but for the future.
#UNRISD62
Thanks @isabelortiz.bsky.social to reminds us why innovative research matters, not just for now, but for the future.
#UNRISD62
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Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
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This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
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Summer 2025 - Bretton Woods Project
This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.
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July 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...
This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇
tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...
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#FfD4 is far from the milestone for global economic governance reform it could have been.
For #CivilSociety, it's clear that the job is not done. We need real reform, not a watered-down consensus.
Read our analysis 👉 www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not...
For #CivilSociety, it's clear that the job is not done. We need real reform, not a watered-down consensus.
Read our analysis 👉 www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not...
July 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
#FfD4 is far from the milestone for global economic governance reform it could have been.
For #CivilSociety, it's clear that the job is not done. We need real reform, not a watered-down consensus.
Read our analysis 👉 www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not...
For #CivilSociety, it's clear that the job is not done. We need real reform, not a watered-down consensus.
Read our analysis 👉 www.eurodad.org/ffd4_job_not...
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"A document that examines in detail the foreign and domestic, public and private resources that could finance development does not consider, not even once, the most important institution of public money creation: the central bank."
NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.
NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.
The Welfare State and Its Discontents | Daniela Gabor
A dispatch from Financing for Development in Seville
www.phenomenalworld.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"A document that examines in detail the foreign and domestic, public and private resources that could finance development does not consider, not even once, the most important institution of public money creation: the central bank."
NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.
NEW by @danielagabor.bsky.social, third dispatch from FfD4.
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Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems
#FFD4People
#FFD4People
July 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems
#FFD4People
#FFD4People
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1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214
May 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214
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Instead of building schools and hospitals, billions in public funds from Africa vanish into offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies.
We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0
We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0
Dirty money’s hiding spots: How corruption funds disappear overseas -…
How dirty money disappears overseas and corruption-linked African assets are hidden in wealthy nations
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December 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Instead of building schools and hospitals, billions in public funds from Africa vanish into offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies.
We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0
We have analysed 78 cases, revealing where stolen funds end up. Check it out! ⬇️ https://buff.ly/3BoJPZ0
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Why wouldn't we want multinational corporations to pay their share of taxes? It's mind-boggling. #FfD4
“In one day, in one hour, the #G7 destroyed 14 years of global governance and made a mockery of the #G20/#OECD Inclusive Framework by destroying the global minimum tax on multinationals” @josephestiglitz.bsky.social at #FfD4
#TaxThePower
#TaxThePower
July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Why wouldn't we want multinational corporations to pay their share of taxes? It's mind-boggling. #FfD4
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For a decade, we've been told blended finance would turn "billions into trillions." The reality? Just $15 billion annually—less than 0.4% of the $4 trillion needed for SDGs.
My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...
My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...
July 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
For a decade, we've been told blended finance would turn "billions into trillions." The reality? Just $15 billion annually—less than 0.4% of the $4 trillion needed for SDGs.
My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...
My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...
Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems
#FFD4People
#FFD4People
July 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Back from the disappointing UN Conference on Financing for Development #FfD4, with 50+ heads of state, high-level participants +6,000 private sector participants/lobbyists. The outcome doesn't have the level of ambition needed for current crises; often it perpetuates structural problems
#FFD4People
#FFD4People
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We can’t ignore the human rights impacts of budget cuts & austerity.
As Attiya Waris put it: “There’s blood on the budget lines.”
Check out her new think tank working to reimagine global financial governance: house-of-fiscal-wisdom.com
As Attiya Waris put it: “There’s blood on the budget lines.”
Check out her new think tank working to reimagine global financial governance: house-of-fiscal-wisdom.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We can’t ignore the human rights impacts of budget cuts & austerity.
As Attiya Waris put it: “There’s blood on the budget lines.”
Check out her new think tank working to reimagine global financial governance: house-of-fiscal-wisdom.com
As Attiya Waris put it: “There’s blood on the budget lines.”
Check out her new think tank working to reimagine global financial governance: house-of-fiscal-wisdom.com
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The G7’s decision to let US multinationals off the hook weakens even that the modest floor of a 15% global tax and sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. A @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece with @jayatighosh.bsky.social and Jose Antonio Ocampo. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...
A Tax Victory for Multinationals Over People
Joseph E. Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo and Jayati Ghosh lament the G7’s decision to exempt US corporations from the global minimum tax rate agreed in 2021.
www.project-syndicate.org
June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The G7’s decision to let US multinationals off the hook weakens even that the modest floor of a 15% global tax and sends the wrong message to the rest of the world. A @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece with @jayatighosh.bsky.social and Jose Antonio Ocampo. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...
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Powerful @endausterity.bsky.social panel at #FFD4 on alternatives to budget cuts for investing in universal social protection & public services.
The most common austerity measure? Slashing social protection—replacing universal programs w narrow, means-tested safety nets. @isabelortiz.bsky.social
The most common austerity measure? Slashing social protection—replacing universal programs w narrow, means-tested safety nets. @isabelortiz.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Powerful @endausterity.bsky.social panel at #FFD4 on alternatives to budget cuts for investing in universal social protection & public services.
The most common austerity measure? Slashing social protection—replacing universal programs w narrow, means-tested safety nets. @isabelortiz.bsky.social
The most common austerity measure? Slashing social protection—replacing universal programs w narrow, means-tested safety nets. @isabelortiz.bsky.social
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It was a great privilege to present our Jubilee Report on Sovereign Debt findings and recommendations to Cardinal Parolin. We look forward to the work we will continue to do to redesign global debt architecture. Countries must be able to strengthen critical areas like health and education.
@martinguzman.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and others presented the Jubilee Report’s findings and recommendations to Cardinal Parolin. All look forward to continued collaboration.
June 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It was a great privilege to present our Jubilee Report on Sovereign Debt findings and recommendations to Cardinal Parolin. We look forward to the work we will continue to do to redesign global debt architecture. Countries must be able to strengthen critical areas like health and education.
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Countries are hobbled by debt, funneling money to creditors instead of to health, education or infrastructure. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @martinguzman.bsky.social headed a Jubilee Commission report that suggests remedies. Worth a read or a watch
Missed the launch of the Jubilee Report on June 20? The full launch event is now available to watch here:
Morning session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7b...
Afternoon session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28t...
@martinguzman.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
Morning session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks7b...
Afternoon session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28t...
@martinguzman.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
Launch of Jubilee Report — Afternoon Session
YouTube video by Initiative for Policy Dialogue
www.youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Countries are hobbled by debt, funneling money to creditors instead of to health, education or infrastructure. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @martinguzman.bsky.social headed a Jubilee Commission report that suggests remedies. Worth a read or a watch
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We exposes the illusion of consensus at the #FfD4 conference where multilateralism was not saved, but sanitized.
From a U.Swalkout to behind-the-scenes sabotage by Global North allies, Read :
🔗 menafemmovement.org/the-illusion...
#FfD4 #DebtJustice #TaxJustice #ClimateFinance #SystemicReform
From a U.Swalkout to behind-the-scenes sabotage by Global North allies, Read :
🔗 menafemmovement.org/the-illusion...
#FfD4 #DebtJustice #TaxJustice #ClimateFinance #SystemicReform
The Illusion of Consensus: FfD4 and the Fight for Systemic Change - menafem movement
The outcome document of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) was adopted yesterday in a moment that is already being framed as a triumph of multilateralism. It wasn’...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We exposes the illusion of consensus at the #FfD4 conference where multilateralism was not saved, but sanitized.
From a U.Swalkout to behind-the-scenes sabotage by Global North allies, Read :
🔗 menafemmovement.org/the-illusion...
#FfD4 #DebtJustice #TaxJustice #ClimateFinance #SystemicReform
From a U.Swalkout to behind-the-scenes sabotage by Global North allies, Read :
🔗 menafemmovement.org/the-illusion...
#FfD4 #DebtJustice #TaxJustice #ClimateFinance #SystemicReform
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📢 The UN’s new #FfD4 outcome doc is 38 pages of UN-speak.
GPF Europe’s @bodoellmers.bsky.social breaks it down: 8 key takeaways on #DRM, private finance, trade, debt, data + more, focusing on what might actually lead to action.
🔗 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
GPF Europe’s @bodoellmers.bsky.social breaks it down: 8 key takeaways on #DRM, private finance, trade, debt, data + more, focusing on what might actually lead to action.
🔗 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
June 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📢 The UN’s new #FfD4 outcome doc is 38 pages of UN-speak.
GPF Europe’s @bodoellmers.bsky.social breaks it down: 8 key takeaways on #DRM, private finance, trade, debt, data + more, focusing on what might actually lead to action.
🔗 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...
GPF Europe’s @bodoellmers.bsky.social breaks it down: 8 key takeaways on #DRM, private finance, trade, debt, data + more, focusing on what might actually lead to action.
🔗 www.globalpolicy.org/en/news/2025...