Litigation materials

RightsApp

The Rights App is a mobile application that serves as a free reference guide to international human rights law. It contains the full text of the Universal Declaration of Human...

The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Commentary

On 10 December 2008, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR). The Optional...

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ESCR-Net Amicus – Court of Appeal for Ontario, Tanudjaja et al v. Attorney General of Canada and Attorney General of Ontario

Amnesty International and ESCR-Net formed a coalition to intervene in this case on the right to housing in Canada. Please access the amicus here....

ESCR-Net Legal Opinion – HRC, Toussaint v. Canada

This legal opinion is presented in response to a request by the Author to provide an expert view on issues raised in Communication No. 2348/2014 that may be of assistance to the Human Rights Committee (Committee).

The members of ESCR-Net’s Strategic Litigation...