1. Resources

Collective Work

  • Advancing shared analysis and collective action on Women and Work

    In Mexico City, from 12 to 15 February, our Women and ESCR Working Group held a strategy meeting on women and work, co-hosted by Instituto de Liderazgo Simon de Beauvoir-ILSB. Building on a shared systemic analysis, the meeting brought together 15 ESCR-Net members from 13 countries, to explore...

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  • Developing a shared critique of the dominant economic system

    On 4-8 February 2019, ten members of the Economic Policy Working Group (EPWG) came together in Chiapas, Mexico, for a workshop on building a shared systemic critique of the dominant economic system, otherwise known as the “Chiapas Workshop.” It was co-hosted by...

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  • ESCR-Net Members: Want to see better ESCR data?

     

    Data — especially official data — should align with human rights standards and obligations. It should be available and accessible to human rights advocates and communities in ways that makes it truly useful and relevant for informing decisions that affect their lives...

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  • Building an alternative narrative on ESCR data

    In Mexico City, from the 29 January – 2 February, the Monitoring Working Group of ESCR-Net held its first strategy meeting. The meeting brought together 20 members of ESCR-Net to discuss key challenges in using data to advance socioeconomic rights, develop a shared analysis of how data should...

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  • Webinar: What is Corporate Capture?

    On 3 April, we hosted the first of a series of public webinars that will be held throughout the year as part of our global campaign on corporate capture.

    In this first webinar, ESCR-Net’s Corporate Accountability Working Group introduced ...

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  • Sierra Leone: Protect land rights defenders!

    On 4 March 2019, ESCR-Net sent a collective letter to the President of Sierra Leone to express concern regarding a violent incident on 21 January 2019, between local communities and military personnel deployed to protect the palm oil plantations of the agribusiness Socfin Group in the Sahn Malen...

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  • To Vale and Business Partners: Remedy and Accountability for Victims Now

    Numerous human rights defenders have been alerting the public to the dangers that the Vale dam posed to the people of Brumadinho, Brazil. On 25 January 2019, the dam exploded, unleashing a wave of toxic mud that killed or disappeared more than 300 people, the deadliest mining tragedy...

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  • Webinar: Lessons from the Experience of the Follow-Up Procedure in MBD v. Spain

    On November 5, 2018, members gathered for a webinar discussion titled: “Implementing CESCR Decisions: Lessons from the Experience of the Follow-Up Procedure in MBD v. Spain.” The online seminar about the...
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  • Webinar: SIMORE Plus Paraguay and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

    In September 2018, members of the SLWG participated in a webinar hosted by ESCR-Net regarding an online tool being developed by the Commission’s executive secretariat and the state of Paraguay to...
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  • Advocating for binding treaty on business and human rights

    More than 25 ESCR-Net member organizations gathered at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council this past October 15-19 to support and advocate for a strong treaty on human rights and transnational corporations and other business entities (TNCs-OBEs) at the ...

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  • Watch: Video animation on Corporate Capture

    ESCR-Net members have increasingly been using the term “corporate capture” to refer to the means by which an economic elite undermine the realization of human rights and the environment by exerting undue influence over domestic and international decision-makers and public institutions.

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  • New Board leadership for ESCR-Net

    ESCR-Net has elected a new board for the period 2019-2021. The elections ran from 13–30 November, featured 24 candidates and elicited 141 votes from the network’s organizational members, resulting in the election of:

    • Maha Abdallah (
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