The Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) of the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) engaged in a consultation with the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms...
ESCR-Net celebrates the release today of Hossam Bahgat, Board Chair of ESCR-Net, following interrogation and detention by Egyptian military intelligence....
Eighteen grassroots leaders from eight countries came together in the Gulf Region of the US in a small meeting of ESCR-Net’s Social Movement Working Group. The participants, senior-level...
In an effort to re-evaluate the strategic direction of ESCR-Net’s collective work on economic policy and human rights, the Economic Policy and Human Rights Working Group (EPWG) has initiated a mapping exercise to gather information on the advocacy activities related...
On September 17, 2015, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) published its first recommendations in response to an individual complaint, regarding a violation of the right to housing, under the Optional Protocol to the...
The Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR is calling for candidates who are eager to take responsibility in the process of strengthening the Campaign for the Ratification of the...
Over the last decade, the legal opportunities for claiming economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights have greatly increased in many parts of Africa. This can be seen in the growing use of litigation strategies amongst civil society, increased legal mobilisation of...
