News and Activities

ESCR-Net Stands with Endorois and Ogiek Communities: Urging Justice from the Kenyan Government

On Tuesday, February 6th, at 11 am (Nairobi), members of ESCR-Net will deliver to the Attorney General of Kenya's office in Nairobi two call-to-action letters demanding the government immediately implement the Commission and Court rulings to ensure justice and reparations for the Endorois and Ogiek Peoples, including return of their ancestral lands and respect of their rights to free, prior and informed consent over any actions taken there.

Six Reasons Why a Trips Waiver Is Needed to Justly and Effectively End the Covid-19 Pandemic

Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) are international agreements for the protection of intellectual property monopolies (including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets etc.) monitored by the World Trade Organization (WTO). TRIPS obligates member states to...

Deepening engagement with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Members from the Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) and the Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG), convened in Bogota, Colombia for the 167th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

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Implementation of recommendations issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

On September 5th, several member organizations of the Strategic Litigation Working Group of the ESCR-Net (SLWG) including Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA) (Mexico...

Advances in land rights cases involving indigenous communities in Paraguay

Paraguayan organization Tierraviva a los Pueblos Indígenas del Chaco recently became more optimistic regarding the possibility of achieving new...

ESCR-Net members launch book on the enforcement of ESCR

Several ESCR-Net members launched a book on the enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) in March 2017. The book, ...

Initial steps towards improving the implementation of decisions in the Americas

On 20 March 2017, members of the Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) gathered at the office of the Due Process...

Endorois women and men join forces in their struggle for the right to land in Kenya

On August 10-12, 2016, the Endorois Welfare Council (EWC), with the support of ESCR-Net, organized its first women’s workshop, bringing to Nakuru (Kenya) 25 women from the 16 locations where the Endorois live today.

Unprecedented ruling by...

Following ESCR-Net members' advocacy, the UN Committee on ESCR recommends the Kenyan government to consult the Endorois in all stages of the implementation process

The UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has just published its ...

Defending freedom of expression of human rights’ defenders in Paraguay

On December 9, 2015, the Paraguayan Council of Justice (Consejo de Superintendencia de Justicia) issued a decision on the administrative inquiry procedure initiated against human rights’ defender, Julia Cabello, applying a sanction of admonition (amonestación). On...

Implementation under the African System of Human and Peoples’ Rights

Members and partners of the Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) foregrounded implementation at the 57th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), which was held on Nov. 4-11, 2015, in Banjul, The Gambia....

Indigenous Communities in Paraguay and Ecuador Sign Declaration to Promote Enforcement of Decisions related to the Right to Land

Meeting in Sawhoyamaxa land

Representatives of the Sarayaku people (Ecuador), Dejusticia (Colombia), and Fundación Pachamama (Ecuador), with the...