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Members intervene in pair of groundbreaking climate change-related human rights cases pending at the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights

Collectives of ESCR-Net members have filed third-party interventions in a pair of groundbreaking climate change-related human rights cases now pending before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. The two cases—Duarte Agostinho v. Portugal and 32 Other States, and ...

Oct

2020

Virtual Side-Event: Overcoming Corporate Capture in the UN Binding Treaty

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Layla Hughes

Country:

Switzerland

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Environment & ESCR

Corporate Accountability

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Country:

Belgium, Egypt, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States of America

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Corporate Accountability

Collective Engagement to Strengthen the Realization of ESCR via the United Nations

On March 3, 2020, a group of Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) and Monitoring Working Group (MWG) members discussed working methods and rights enforcement with members of the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR), as well as...

Meeting United Nations - Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

Dignity in the time of COVID-19

>> https://www.omct.org/assistance-to-victims/statements/2020/03/d25747/

Feb

2017

Mubende Coffee Plantations and the Bitter Taste of Eviction

Land grabbing particularly affects peasant and rural communities in Africa, threatening their right to adequate food and nutrition, water and sanitation, health and housing. In August 2001, approx. 4,000 people were violently evicted from their land of 2524 hectares...

Legal Report on Access to Healthcare in 12 Countries

This Médecins du monde (MdM) Legal Report on access to healthcare in 12...

Franciscans International (FI)

Country:

Switzerland

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Corporate Accountability

Strategic Litigation

Monitoring

All of the information about the UN Business and Human Rights Forum in an application developed by RIDH

If you are planning to assist the 4th UN Business and Human Rights Forum (16 - 18 November in Geneva), the app “Geneva Human Rights Agenda” could be of use to you. It will help you organise your agenda during...