Press & Statements
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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 and CommonDreams.
- "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?" with 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, IPS News