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A long journey on foot against dams on River Indus

Fisherfolk and peasant leaders from the Sindh province of Pakistan organized a 16 day long march against the building of dams on the Indus River on 10 - 25 October 2018. The march was called on by the chair of ESCR-Net member, the ...

Countering repression and bolstering security for human rights defenders

ESCR-Net’s Strategic Plan (2017-2021) calls on the Network to “counter growing repression, reinforcing the credibility and capacity of human rights defenders and connecting reprisals to underlying ESCR issues.” In the past few months, ESCR-Net has taken several steps in pursuit of this goal....

Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum celebrates International Rivers Day

Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) is celebrating International Rivers...

Protecting the rights of small fishers in Pakistan

The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) launched a campaign across the Sindh province of Pakistan to promote the rights of...

Remembering those who could not come

Their silence was audible.

As 150 people took their seats, ready to inaugurate ESCR-Net’s Global Strategy Meeting, several empty chairs featured prominently among the crowd; holding space for those who did not manage...

Fisherfolk social movements: exchange against land and ocean grabbing

The World Forum of Fisher Peoples convened an exchange in Sri Lanka to study the human rights impacts of land and ocean grabbing and to conceptualize a campaign to defend the...

ESCR-Net celebrates release of Saeed Baloch

ESCR-Net members around the world are celebrating the release from prison of Saeed Baloch. Saeed, who is a Board member of ESCR-Net and leader of the social movement, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, was detained since mid-January, 2016 in a high-security prison in Karachi...