UN: Curb Illicit Flows to Progress on Human Rights
- Sri Lanka Daily News 2016
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Curbing tax-related illicit financial flows has the potential to make the largest fiscal impact and would enlarge domestic resources available for the realization of human rights, including social, economic and cultural rights, a UN human rights expert has said. In his final study on illicit financial flows, human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States, said that combating tax abuse, and illicit financial flows more broadly, is essential to make better progress in realizing international human rights obligations.
