Collective Work

Interpreting the Right to Life: ESCR-Net member submissions to the Human Rights Committee

In mid-2017, the Human Rights Committee (HRC) released its draft General Comment on the Right to Life (under Article 6...

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IGWG Session 3 – ESCR-Net oral statement on behalf of CAWG

Third session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on the elaboration of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights.

ESCR-Net oral statement on behalf of the Corporate...

Concerns regarding OHCHR partnership with Microsoft

On 17 October 2017 ESCR-Net sent a letter to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to raise concern regarding...

Members gathered in Mexico develop a strategic plan for the Corporate Capture Project

From 29-31 August 2017, some 25 members of ESCR-Net—social movements and NGOs from around the world—gathered in Mexico City, to develop a strategic plan for the next two years of the Corporate...

Advancing collective action toward new Network-wide objectives

At the ESCR-Net Global Strategy Meeting in November 2016, over 140 representatives of Member organizations – working across four languages – defined shared objectives to collectively confront unjust systems and promote transformative alternatives to advance ESCR over the next...

CESCR issues new guidance to States on how to apply their ESCR obligations to business activities

In June 2017, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) adopted its General Comment No. 24 on State obligations under the International Covenant on Economic,...

Checklist for documenting corporate human rights impacts

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) and the ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group, in...

Victory over global steel giant by farmers’ social movement in India

Around the world, social movements and human rights advocates are celebrating the definitive suspension of the POSCO-India project. The project, which represented the largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) in India’s history, entailed a massive integrated...

Member submissions advocate for strong UN Committee guidance on ESCR and business activities

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN CESCR) is currently developing a General Comment on State obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and...

ESCR-Net & FIDH launch 10 key Legal proposals for UN Treaty to stop corporate abuse

ESCR-Net and FIDH, who have jointly run the Treaty Initiative for two years, have launched a legal resource document for advocates and diplomats involved in the UN...

Corporate Accountability Working Group issues set of recommendations to UN to address corporate-related human rights abuses

ESCR-Net’s Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG) has made a submission jointly calling upon the United Nations’ Open-ended Intergovernmental Working...

Advances in the Corporate Capture Project

Following interest expressed by members during ESCR-Net’s Peoples’ Forum on Human Rights and Business, (Nairobi, October 2015) to ensure that corporate capture becomes an ever-more central component of all of the activities of the Corporate Accountability Working...