Collective Work

ESCR-Net @ the 4th IGWG on TNCs
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ESCR-Net CAWG Strategy Meeting (pre-IGWG)

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Advancing network-wide collective action and campaigning
From 22-25 July, 31 member representatives from 17 countries met in Durban, South Africa, organized with Abahlali baseMjondolo and the ...
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The power of women leaders in the struggles for land, housing and natural resources
From 14-16 May 2018 eighteen grassroots women leaders from ten countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America gathered together for a strategic exchange around women’s leadership in struggles to advance land, housing and natural resource rights. The exchange, which took place in Nairobi, Kenya,...
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Endorois Women lead on land rights struggle
From 8-11 May 2018, the Women and ESCR Working Group and the Strategic Litigation Working Group of ESCR-Net collaborated with our member, the Endorois Welfare Council (EWC), in facilitating a workshop on human rights principles and organizing for Endorois women leaders at Lake Bogoria in Kenya....
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Global conversations to advance ESCR in conflict and post-conflict settings continue

Over the past year, ESCR-Net members have begun a global discussion about how to advance economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) in situations of conflict and occupation and in post-conflict transitions. A first round of online discussions was held between December 2017 and January
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UN finds rights violations in irregular migrant being denied essential health services
The UN Human Rights Committee recently issued a positive decision in Toussaint v. Canada, a case examining the government’s life-threatening denial of health coverage based on Ms. Nell Toussaint’s irregular migrant status. Member organization...
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Webinar on ‘How do we effectively monitor ESCR?’

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Ecuador fails to address the impact of unpaid care work on women’s social security access
Last October, members from the Strategic Litigation Working Group and Women and ESCR Working Group submitted a collective third party intervention...
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Promoting the rights of rural women at CSW62
Building on collective work to advance women’s rights related to land, housing and natural resources, ESCR-Net members active in the Women and ESCR and Corporate Accountability Working Groups engaged with fellow civil society advocates, state representatives and UN officials—at the...
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Deepening engagement with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Members from the Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) and the Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG), convened in Bogota, Colombia for the 167th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

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Considering ongoing collective work on land, housing and natural resources
With approximately one half of the ESCR-Net’s organizational members working on land, housing and natural resources (LHNR) in some way, it is apparent that these are central issues in the field of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR).

From 10-11 March 2018—...
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Global conversations to advance ESCR in conflict and post-conflict settings
Through a series of online conversations, ESCR-Net members have embarked on a global discussion about how to advance economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) in situations of conflict and occupation and in post-conflict transitions.

The need to advance ESCR in...
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Collective Work

CONCLUDED EVENTS

ESCR-Net CAWG Strategy Meeting (pre-IGWG)

Advocacy Position Papers...