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100+ groups publicly call on United Nations to develop new binding instrument to address corporate human rights abuses
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 11:18
On the eve of the UN Forum on Business & Human Rights over one hundred civil society organisations and social movements have publicly joined the growing call for States to begin taking steps towards establishing a binding international treaty to deal with corporate human rights abuses.
Forum and Workshop on the OP-ICESCR in Philippines
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 09:00
NGO Coalition for the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its partners in Philippines, ESCR-Asia, the Philippine Human Rights Information Center (Philrights), the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (...
Meetings on the OP-ICESCR ratification in Benin and Togo
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 10:11
Benin/Togo, 26 October 2013. The International Coalition for the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ends on Oct.26...
South Africa: Stop the murders, detentions and threats against shack dwellers
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 15:58
On 10 October, 2013, ESCR-Net sent an Urgent Action appeal in response to the recent murders, arbitrary detentions, intimidation and threats against leaders of the shack-dweller movement and ESCR-Net member, Abahlali baseMjondolo and called on the Government of South Africa to uphold its human rights obligations.
ESCR-Net letter to the Coordinating Committee of Special Procedures
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 18:02
On 23 September, ESCR-Net sent a letter to the Coordinating Committee of Special Procedures to express concern regarding statements issued by members of the parliament (MPs) of the United Kingdom following a preliminary report from an official mission to that country by the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik.
Celebrating a New Route to Justice
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 22:04
On September 24th 2009, the OP-ICESCR was opened for signature and ratification (or accession). On 5 May 2013 it entered into force after being ratified by 10 States.
This milestone has opened a new opportunity for advancing economic, social and cultural rights realization....
Ogoni March for International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2013
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 11:44
Over ten thousand Ogonis including MOSOP activists marched on Bori, the Ogoni ancestral capital to commemorate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and protest the failure of the Nigerian Government to implement the UNEP environmental assessment report on Ogoni two years after its official release.
The Endorois community clarifies priorities for land restitution and reparations, advancing implementation of the precedent-setting recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to Kenya
Friday, August 2, 2013 - 10:47
In 2010, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued unprecedented recommendations on the Endorois case, including restitution of their ancestral land, compensation for all the loss suffered, and royalties for existing economic activities on their land...
The Council of Ministers of Belgium has approved the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 05:47
We have good news to share. The Council of Ministers of Belgium has approved the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR. Once Belgium concludes the ratification process it would be the 11th country to have done so, joining Ecuador, Mongolia, Spain, El Salvador, Argentina, Bolivia,...
Celebration of the Entry into Force of the OP-ICESCR
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 16:09
For Members of the NGO Coalition, NGOs and grassroots groups around the world, the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) on 5 May 2013, was cause for celebration, affirming the...

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