Shared Analysis

Explore our analysis of the global conditions and historical trajectories undermining human rights and imperiling the planet. This analysis, guided by resisting communities worldwide, is integral to defining demands, strategies, and inclusive visions that can advance social justice and drive systemic change.

Building shared analysis opens our eyes. I have learned how many issues are the result of systemic injustices and how this is affecting poor women, in particular, in so many places worldwide.

— Ida LeBlanc (National Union of Domestic Employees, NUDE, Trinidad Tobago)

The Common Charter for Collective Struggle, originally drafted by social movements in 2016 and later ratified by the entire ESCR-Net, serves as a political tool to confront structural injustice. It denounces dispossession, inequality, climate breakdown, corporate capture, and repression, while articulating shared principles to build collective power and transform oppressive systems.

In response to escalating crises, the Social Movement Working Group led a global process to update the Charter. Through virtual dialogues, in-person meetings in South Africa (2023) and Brazil (2024), and workshops on economic violence, debt, care, and climate, movements revisited the analysis. In July 2024, their contributions were formally added as an addendum to the original text—reaffirming their leadership and deep commitment to justice, dignity, and human rights.

Read the Common Charter for Collective Struggle

As the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic and interconnected crises became increasingly apparent, ESCR-Net members engaged in a series of discussions across working groups to analyze the implications of the pandemic. These discussions ultimately informed a Network-wide Global Call to Action in Response to COVID-19 (1 May 2020) as a collective response outlining inclusive and systemic demands for a just recovery and a just transition requiring transformative actions towards a “new normal” rooted in human and environmental rights.

Read the Global Call to Action in Response to COVID-19

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