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ESCR-Net urges Members States of the OAS to resolve the severe financial crisis facing the IACHR

On 3 June 2016, the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) sent a letter to 34 presidents and prime ministers of Member States of the...

ESCR-Net members celebrate international day of struggle against dams

The movements of people affected by dams, includding several ESCR-Members, from different Latin-American countries call to organizations, networks, activists and social movements to sum to the mobilizations of the week of March 14...

Amnesty International's written statement on the human rights situation in Colombia

On 9 February 2016, Amnesty International (AI) submitted a written statement to the 31st session of the UN Human Rights Council regarding the human rights situation in Colombia....

Dejusticia and Business and Human Rights Resource Center release a report on the coal industry and human rights

ESCR-Net members Dejusticia and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre have recently co-published a report entitled “Digging Deeper: The Human Rights Impacts of Coal in the Global South”...

Latin American and the Caribbean Forum on domestic work: united for a decent work

The forum took place in Medellin, Colombia, last October 27th and 28th and it is maybe an unprecedented event of this kind, since it brought together to representatives of domestic workers of 10 Latin American and the Caribbean countries in order to know...

NGOs celebrate suspension of aerial spraying, advance in Colombian environmental law

AIDA and other civil society organizations finally celebrated the temporary and preventive suspension of aerial spraying with glyphosate as an advance in the protection of public health and the right to a healthy environment in Colombia....

ESCR-Net releases report of six cases of corporate capture

ESCR-Net have developed a Scoping Report highlighting six cases of corporate capture in different industries and across different regions. The Scoping Report is a preliminary...

How do we make economic, social and cultural rights a reality in Latin America?

The International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), the Centre for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) organized the first Latin America Strategic Workshop on Enforcement of Positive Decisions on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Bogota (Colombia) on February 7-8, 2013, bringing together 20 lawyers and activists from across the region. The workshop was supported by the Ford Foundation and the University of Los Andes.