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How Civil Society Action Led to Fairer Taxation in Mexico

(CC BY-SA 2.0) Sasha India In October 2019, following a landmark legal case, Mexico’s tax administration was forced to publish information on almost every case of tax rebate and cancellation issued from 2007 to 2015. The publication of this data, which included cases involving many of Mexico’s wealthiest and well-known personalities, sent shockwaves through Mexican society. Outraged citizens flooded social media with images of the ostentatious spending of tax-rebate recipients.
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Feb 06, 2020
Paul Von Chamier
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Experts Group on the Global Compact on Refugees: Working Papers

Balukhali refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

These working papers share perspectives and recommendations of the Experts Group on the Global Compact of Refugees (CCRF), a joint initiative of the New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, convened with support from the Open Society Foundations. 

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Feb 13, 2020
Humanitarian Crises
Humanitarian Crises

Peace Operations Review 2019

Closure ceremony of the Senegalese Formed Police Unit, MINUJUSTH headquarters, Port-au-Prince.

After several years at a crossroads, United Nations peace operations took a definitive turn in 2019, shifting away from large, multidimensional, "conflict management" operations toward models that are smaller, more flexible, and have greater reliance on partnerships.  This edition of Peace Operations Review surveys a year of reforms, the twentieth anniversary of the first protection of civilians mandate, and innovative approaches to peace operations transitions.

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Dec 18, 2019
Peace Operations
Peace and Security

Annual Report 2018-2019

The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University is pleased to share our Annual Report 2018-2019, which covers CIC’s activities and achievements here in New York and around the globe from July 2018 through September of this year. 

 

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Dec 17, 2019
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Congo Research Group, Humanitarian Crises, Multilateral Reform, Peace and Security, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Triple Nexus in Practice: Toward a New Way of Working in Protracted and Repeated Crises

Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

In 2016, global policymakers came together to confront a critical policy dilemma: what is, or should be, the role of humanitarian action in a world beset by “permanent emergencies” that do not end, in which the root causes are overwhelmingly structural and political? One major outcome of the summit was the commitment to a “new way of working” based on linking the “triple nexus” of humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding (HDP) efforts. CIC's new report, The Triple Nexus in Practice: Toward a New Way of Working in Protracted and Repeated Crises, shares the results of a major independent review of the implementation of this process.

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Dec 09, 2019
Leah Zamore
2030 Agenda, Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises
Humanitarian Crises

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