The Center for Reproductive Rights and Advocacia Cidadã Pelos Direitos Humanos submitted the first maternal mortality case brought to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in November 2007.
The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has launched the new publication "Claiming ESCR at the United Nations: a manual on utilizing the OP-ICESCR in strategic litigation"
On April 14, 2014, the third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (OP3-CRC) entered into force, allowing the Committee on the Rights of the Child to receive complaints from individuals or groups of individuals against states that have ratified the instrument
ESCR-Net Members CELS, LRC, KHRC and EIPR have participated in the the report “Take back the streets: Repression and criminalization of protest around the world”, recently launched by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO)
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), with the co-sponsorship of the Permanent Missions of Portugal and Uruguay, on behalf of the Group of Friends of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on...
The NGO Coalition for the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) advanced its ratification campaign in New York, during the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and in South Africa, via a national seminar. In...
During the 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, APWLD, AWID, CRR, CWGL, CLADEM, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, LRC, and other Members disseminated factsheets and papers addressing realization of women’s ESC rights and substantive equality in the Post-2015 context.
South African members of the NGO Coalition, Community Law Centre (CLC) and Socio Economic Rights Institute (SERI) together with their partners People Health's Movements South Africa, Black Sash, GCAP, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) and the...
In the framework of the 58 session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 58) the Women and ESCR Working Group organized a series of events and meetings gathering several members of the group who where participating at this major UN event that addresses women’s issues