International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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All Activities and Actions
19 March 2010: ESCR-Net Intervention in ECOSOC special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions
April 19, 2010: Macroeconomics:Towards a Human Rights-Centered Macro-Economic and Financial Policy in the US
Read this joint submission on the human rights implications of the financial crisis and subsequent domestic policy responses in the USA. In particular, it focuses on the human rights obligation to protect and fulfill economic and social rights as well as the need for transparency, accountability and participation in the making of macroeconomic policy.
April 19, 2010: Rights Groups Report to UN on US Human Rights Failure to Hold Corporations Accountable for Human Trafficking, Child Labor, Torture, Murder, Indigenous Rights' Violations
Human Rights organizations submitted a report to the United Nations in Geneva today on the United States failure to hold corporations, including private government contractors, accountable for human rights abuses ranging from human trafficking to murder.
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Joint Statement - Business and Human Rights at the Human Rights Council - 2010
Read our June 2010 joint statement on business and human rights at the Human Rights Council.
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NEW ANNOUNCEMENT: Ecuador Ratifies OP-ICESCR on June 11, 2010
ESCR-Net and the NGO Coalition for an OP-ICESCR congratulate Ecuador on being the first country to undertake all steps to ratify the OP-ICESCR. Ratification of the instrument symbolizes Ecuador's commitment to upholding its international human rights obligations and realizing economic, social and cultural rights.
To access the list of countries that have signed and/or ratified the Protocol, visit http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-3-a&chapter=4&lang=en
May 4th, 2010: Urgent Action: Attack against convoy of international human rights observers in Oaxaca, México
In response to a request by an ESCR-Net member, we have written an urgent action letter (attached and below) urging to Mexican authorities to take all necessary measures to clarify the assassination of rights activists Beatriz Alberta Cariño, head of ESCR-Net member CACTUS (Community Working Together Support Center), and Jiry Antero Jaakkola, a citizen of Finland, who was killed this past April 27th, identify and punish all those responsible, and provide immediate and effective protection for his family and colleagues.
Participate in this Questionnaire on Government Responses to the Crisis - 2010
It has been more than two years now since the start of the largest financial meltdown and global economic recession in over fifty years. And yet, how have our governments responded to this crisis in such a way as to uphold peoples' fundamental dignity and human rights? Participate in this Questionnaire on Government Responses to the Crisis. Economic policy is public policy - your voice must be heard!
Participer à un questionnaire portant sur les réponses de votre gouvernement face à la crise
Cela fait maintenant plus de deux ans, qu'est survenue la plus grande crise financière et récession économique mondiale depuis plus de cinquante ans. Et pourtant, il reste à analyser comment nos gouvernements ont réagi à cette crise de manière à respecter la dignité fondamentale des peuples et droits de l'homme. Participer à un questionnaire portant sur les réponses de votre gouvernement face à la crise La politique financière nous concerne tous - Votre voix doit être entendue!
Symposium on Enforcement of ESCR Judgments, May 6-7, 2010
ESCR-Net, Dejusticia (Center for Law, To Justice and Society, Colombia) and the Norwegian Centre on Human Rights convened a two-day workshop in Bogota to advance dialogue on conceptual and empirical issues with discussion on joint strategies for promoting the implementation of ESC rights.