Press & Statements

• "The 2025 World Social Summit Must Not Be a Missed Opportunity"  Isabel Ortiz, Odile Frank and Gabriele Koehler, 29 May 2025, IPS News.

• Letter to European leaders - UN Financing for Development Conference must deliver critical reforms , 29 April 2025.

• "Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social Dimensions"  Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Isabel Ortiz,  24 April 2025, IPS News.

• Letter to Nepal Finance Minister to expand the universal Child Grant in the budget, 23 March 2025.

• Civil Society inputs to the Zero Draft of the UN 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), 7 February 2025. 

• Joint civil society and trade unions letter to Ursula von der Leyen: Protect people, nature, and democracy in EU regulations. 13 January 2025.

• Letter to the International Monetary Fund Board of Directors on the Need for Significant Reform of the Rate of Charge and Surcharge Policies, 10 October 2024.

• Joint civil society and trade unions letter on the Terms of Reference for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. 4 July 2024. 

• Letter to the World Bank on IDA21 Third Replenishment, June 2024.

• Statement to international financial institutions to stop spending development funds on for-profit private healthcare providers. 6 June 2024.

• Call on the IMF to End Harmful Surcharges. March 2024.

• The World Social Forum’s Kathmandu Statement to End Austerity. 28 February 2024. 
  

• “The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum”, Isabel Ortiz, 23 Feb 2024, IPS News.

• WSF2024 Joint Statement on Universal Social Protection, February 2024.

• Letter to the EIB's President Nadia Calvino. February 2024.

• Civil Society inputs to the UN Summit of the Future, Jan 2024.

• Letter to Ministries of Finance and Foreign affairs to support the UN Resolution on the Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the United Nations (A/C.2/77/L.18), 3 Nov 2023.

• Marrakech Declaration to Ministers of Finance and Directors at the IMF and World Bank to End Austerity, 2 Oct 2023.

• Improve social security systems: UN Sustainable Development Goals: The UN economist Gabriele Köhler explains what needs to be done now and in the future. 9 Sep 2023, Deutchland.de.  

• Letter to the World Bank President and UN Secretary General to urge bolder action to reduce extreme inequality, co-signed with Ban-Ki Moon, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and others, 18 July 2023. 

• Letter to the IMF, World Bank and the G20 Presidency on the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable, 5 Apr 2023. 

• "More austerity in 2023 will fuel more protests" Isabel Ortiz and Sara Burke, 13 Jan 2023. IPS News. 

• "Ending the Austerity Pandemic" Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, 8 Dec 2022, Project Syndicate.

• Feminists want system change! Gabriele Koehler, 6 Dec 2022, Oxfam.  

• “Future Pandemics Will Be Worse Without Financial Justice” 15 Nov 2022, Club Suisse de la Presse.

• Letter to reject the International Monetary Fund’s Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender, Oct 2022. 

• "85% of the world's population will live in the grip of stringent austerity measures by next year" 28 Sep 2022, OXFAM press release.

• Letter to BlackRock, Zambia’s creditors and the G20 to cancel Zambia's Debt, 16 Sep 2022.

• Piketty y grupo de economistas internacionales: “Respaldamos el visionario documento de la Convención para asegurar crecimiento sustentable y prosperidad compartida para Chile” 10 Aug 2022, CNN.

• Feminist foreign policy? Gabriele Koehler,17 Jul 2022, Global Policy Forum. 

• "The Age of Discontent: What Drives the Rising Wave of World Protests?" Walden Bello and Isabel Ortiz, 15 Dec 2021, IPS News.

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• "Global Austerity Alert: Looming Budget Cuts in 2021-25 and Alternatives" Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, 15 Apr 2021, IPS News.

• Letter from Nobel Economist and 100 Experts Condemn Corporate Action against Argentina and Bolivia after Rollback of Failed Pension Privatization, 29 Mar 2021.

• Letter to G20 finance ministers to back a new round of IMF Special Drawing Rights, as poorest countries struggle with Covid-19 crises. 25 Feb 2021.

• "Is the IMF Encouraging World Financial Leaders to Walk Blindly Towards More Austerity?" Sir Richard Jolly and Isabel Ortiz, 16 Oct 2020, IPS News.

• Interview at CNN Chile on Pension Reforms, Isabel Ortiz, 8 Oct 2020, CNN.

• "It is Time to End the Controversial World Bank's Doing Business Report" Isabel Ortiz and Leo Baunach, 2 Sep.2020, IPS News.

• "Neglected, Sacrificed: Older Persons During the COVID19 Pandemic"  Isabel Ortiz. 28 July 2020, IPS News.

• "World Protests Show Rising Outrage and Discontent" Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke and Hernan Cortes, 10 June 2020, IPS News.

• "Citizen Action is Central to the Global Response to COVID-19" Isabel Ortiz and Walden Bello, 22 April 2020, IPS News.

• ​"Fighting Coronavirus: It's time to Invest in Universal Public Health" Isabel Ortiz and Thomas Stubbs, 23 March 2020, IPS News.

• “ More Austerity for Developing Countries: It’s Bad News, and It’s Avoidable” Isabel Ortiz and Thomas Stubbs. 25 Nov 2019, IPS News.

• "The Insanity of Austerity" Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, 11 Oct 2019, Project Syndicate.

• "Austerity, the 'New Normal' Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins, 11 Oct 2019, Inter Press Service (IPS) News