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...
From 26 to 28 August, 2015, the Women and ESCR Working Group held an international strategy meeting to promote women's ESCR in Montevideo, Uruguay. The meeting – “Advancing Women’s ESCR: Alternative Visions of Development, Land and Property Rights”...
On 13 August, ESCR-Net sent a press release in order to request Judge Edmundo Roman Pinzon, the president of the Second Criminal Court of the High Court of Justice of the state of Guerrero, to carefully evaluate the evidence submitted by...
The Treaty Initiative Project submitted a joint written statement to the First Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, regarding the Scope of the Legally Binding Instrument to Address Human Rights...
The last two months were marked by discussions held before the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) on the indivisibility of human rights, as well as on the positive obligations of States in relation to civil rights, such as the right to life. Such discussions will...
