Special Features
Partnership: Women and ESCR working group of ESCR-Net and the Women's Human Rights Training Institute
The Women and ESCR working group of ESCR-Net is pleased to announce that we are formally partnering with the Women's Human Rights Training Institute coordinated by the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Network of East West Women. The participation of the Women and ESCR working group will facilitate the focus on economic and social rights advocacy and litigation.
B-HRD Project Launches Special Feature on “Big Pharma” and Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs
A new "In Focus" feature launched by the B-HRD Project details the tactics pursued by "Big Pharma" to frustrate access to essential medicines in India and Brazil, and showcases the strategies of human rights defenders to challenge abusive business practices and counterbalance patent safeguards with strong human rights protections
Two New Countries Ratify the OP-ICESCR this January!
We welcome the Ratifications of Bolivia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Member News
Dec. 20, 2011: A Bottom-Up Approach to Righting Financial Regulation
Download and circulate this new informational fact sheet developed jointly by AWID, Center of Concern, CESR, CIVICUS, DAWN, ESCR-Net, iBase30, and Social Watch on why is a human rights approach needed in financial regulation.
Dec. 5th, 2011: Macroeconomics and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
This report is the culmination of a two-day experts meeting, "Macroeconomics and the Rights to Water and Sanitation," which took place in Lisbon, Portugal from March 31 to April 1, 2011.
Dec. 5th, 2011: Constitutional Court declares City of Johannesburg's Housing Policy Unconstitutional
ESCR-Net members Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) and Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) in South Africa won a very important case within the Constitutional Court on the right to housing, particularly because of its inclusion of positive State obligations.