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Right to Education Initiative

Opinion: "Pandemic shakes up world’s education systems"
19 March 2020

>> https://www.right-to-education.org/blog/pandemic-shakes-world-s-education-systems

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Reimagining rights-based accountability: community use of economic and social rights

These resources look at the work of ESCR-Net member Participation and Practice of Rights based in Northern Ireland (UK).

In particular, the article attached explores the ways in which marginalised groups in Northern Ireland have employed and translated for practical use human rights...

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Communities telling their own stories: a report on our experiences

Data and evidence can play a crucial role in advancing social justice and human rights. Yet ESCR-Net members have recognized that too often data production does not reflect the lived realities of peoples who face poverty, inequality and injustice.

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Making Economic and Social Rights Real: Introduction to a Video Series

Economic and social rights is a crucial area of human rights law that has long been marginalised in the UK. This is despite the fact that the rights to housing, work, an adequate standard of living, food, social security, education, water and health are central to human survival and development...

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Why we should take inequality seriously if we care about human rights

The UK is a profoundly unequal society. This distribution of income is more unequal than the average in both the EU and the Euro area (source: Eurostat; data from 2015). The UK’s Gini coefficient is 32.4, where 0 means absolute equality and 100 means that all income is...

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Talk is Cheap: How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster

Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth-U.S., Sierra Club, and the WWF European Policy Office with the assistance of other NGOs collaborated to produce a report...

Beyond Compliance: Effective reporting under the Modern Slavery Act

This report was published in 2016 as a guide for business on reporting under the Modern Slavery Act of 2015. Slavery and forced labor is an extensive problem in the United Kingdom. In 2015, NGOs campaigned for the Act to require businesses to report on what they are doing to...

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