ESCR-Net's interventions in the Human Rights Council 2021

During this year’s 47th session of the Human Rights Council, the following members Mihir Mankad(Center for Economic and Social Rights), Debbi Stothard (...

Urgent appeal: Call for urgent action to secure universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – a global network connecting over 280 nongovernmental organizations, social movements and advocates across more than 75 countries – submitted an...

Background Document - Corporate capture of the United Nations

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Background document on Corporate Capture

Video: ESCR-Net launches a comic series on corporate capture

Members of the Corporate Accountability Working Group, and in particular those engaged with the Project Advisory Group on Corporate Capture, have collectively worked with...

Collective Submission: Draft Treaty on Human Rights and Business

Over the last three months, members of the ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG) engaged in a process of collective critique and analysis of the
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Statement: Second Revised Draft Binding Instrument on Corporate Accountability – Corporate Impunity Must End

The pursuit of ending corporate impunity continues to progress through the second draft of a legally binding instrument, but a strengthening of collective resolve remains essential to its urgent realization. Only through meaningful participation of States, civil society and
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Protect peoples, not corporate elite

The Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG) strongly believes in our role as part of the global community to shape a new reality where the well-being of people is placed before corporate profit. In a recent Working Group call, Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj, a social movement member of CAWG,...

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action in response to the COVID-19

The Day After Tomorrow: Confronting Systemic Injustices, Advancing Human Rights

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action – already endorsed by 135 members and 40 allies from over 60 countries – advances collective demands for a just recovery and new normal in the face of COVID19

BLOG: First impressions on the Draft Op-Protocol to the Treaty on Business & Human Rights

A toothless tool? First impressions on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights

Authored by ESCR-Net members: Gabriela Kletzel & Andrés López Cabello, Centro de Estudios...

CORE publishes short guides reporting on modern slavery

The Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) collaborated with Anti-Slavery International, Unicef UK, and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre to...

Corporate Capture of the International Development Agenda and why the SDGs cannot stop it

The Campaign for Peoples Goals for Sustainable Development (CPGSD) and IBON International released a new publication on the Corporate Capture of the International Development Agenda and why the SDGs cannot stop it.

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Human Rights Law Sources: UN Pronouncements on Extra-Territorial Obligations

Extra-territorial obligations (ETOs) are increasingly recognized as essential to ensuring a global framework built on human rights. As a consequence, civil society is demanding that ETOs be applied through human rights monitoring, enforcement, accountability and...

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The Day After Tomorrow: Confronting Systemic Injustices, Advancing Human Rights

A toothless tool? First impressions on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights

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