Several organizations of Mexican civil society, including several ESCR-Net members, sent on October 5, 2015 an open letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on the occasion of his visit to...
In general, the monitoring of ESC rights has been associated with a citizen-led process of following and advocating in the realm of public policy, and has been relatively infrequent in the context of mega-development projects. The current context in Mexico is...
Introducing a Rights Based Approach (RBA) into public policies requires incorporating the principles, standards and guidelines emanating from the existing international human rights conventions, as well as other regional and international human rights bodies’ rulings...
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 widower of a human rights defender killed in 2010 has received information concerning plans to take his life. The threats follow a series of intimidating acts directed at him and others that are calling for the investigation of the murder.
Report from MiningWatch Canada and the United Steelworkers concludes that Canadian diplomats in Mexico were complicit in Toronto-based Excellon Resources Inc.’s efforts to avoid redressing a violated land use contract
The ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group organized a meeting to develop strategies for the new UN process to establish a treaty to regulate corporate violations of human rights
