Resources related to ESCR-Net's Collective Work
This section contains issue-based materials and information, including those in which ESCR-Net and its Members are actively involved.
I. Working Group on Strategic Litigation
A. ESCR-Net Resources
- ESCR-Net Caselaw Database
- Claiming ESCR at United Nations Manual
- Supporting Strategic Litigation under the Optional Protocol to ICESCR
B. Related Resources
II. Corporate Accountability Working Group
A. ESCR-Net Resources
- The Price of Steel. Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project
- Factsheet: Corporate Capture. Corporate influence of politics and law-‐making, and the impact it has on human rights
- Treaty Alliance website. Q&A about Treaty Movement
- Peoples' Forum on Bussiness and Human Rights
- Bank on Human Rights website
B. Related Resources
- Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Extraterritorial Obligations Consortium website
- Indigenous Peoples and Corporate Accountability in the ASEAN
III. Economic Policy and Human Rights Working Group
A. ESCR-Net Resources
- ESCR-Net Collective Statement on the Financial Crisis and Global Economic Recession: Towards a Human Rights Response
- Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Crisis: A human rights analysis of government responses to the economic crisis
- Kuala Lumpur Guidelines for a Human Rights Approach to Economic Policy in Agriculture
- Peoples' Forum on Bussiness and Human Rights
- Bank on Human Rights website
B. Related resources
IV. Social Movements Working Group
Human Rights and Land
A. ESCR-Net resources related to human rights and land
- Land in the Struggle for Social Justice: Social Movement Strategies to Secure Human Rights. English, Spanish, Portuguese.
- Seeding Hope: Land in the International Human Rights Agenda. Find here the Summary.
- A human rights assessment of development-induced displacement and options for collaborative responses. Find here the Summary.
- The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project. Find here the Summary.
B. External resources relating to human rights and land
- Displacement Research and Action Network. Find here the Summary.
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
- Asian Human Rights Charter on the Rights of Peasants and Fisher Folk
- Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement
Other resources
- All resources from the SMWG
- Video. Human Rights For and By the People: Securing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from Below. English and Spanish
V. Women and ESCR Working Group
A. ESCR-Net Resources
- Resource Page on Woman and ESCR
- Claiming Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Guide to Advocacy and Litigation Using OP-CEDAW and OP-ICESCR (available in English and Spanish)
- Factsheet on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic)
- Women’s ESCR: A Vital Framework for Fulfilling and Strengthening the Millennium Development Goals (available in English)
- Primer on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (available in English, French, Russian, Arabic and Spanish)
B. Related Resources
- The Montreal Principles on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (available in English, Spanish and French)
- Our rights are not optional. Advocating for the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) through its Optional Protocol (English).
VI. Monitoring Working Group
VII. System of Solidarity and Support (SOS)
VIII. Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
- Toolkit for Action
- Legal documents
- Claiming ESCR At the United Nations
- Claiming Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights using the Optional Protocol
IX. Other resources
- Human Rights for Human Dignity, A primer on economic, social and cultural rights. Second Edition. Amnesty International.
- The Displacement Research and Action Network, based at MIT, is a global network on displacement and land rights that brings together activists, academics and policy makers to build new theory and evidence of the increase and intensity of mass internal displacement around the world due to development, conflict or climate disaster.