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Mar

2023

Disrupting Climate Injustice: Lessons From Costa Rica to Turtle Island

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Dec

2020

Webinar: Building a Feminist Future: Towards a feminist and human-rights-based global social pact on care

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Oct

2020

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

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Jun

2017

2nd International Gathering of Social Movements On Water

We are excited to invite water warriors to Michigan to share and strategy on the state of the movement for water rights in our communities. The 2nd International Gathering brings together people directly impacted by water struggles and social movement water...

Oct

2016

Corporate accountability and influence in the UN Challenges for the new Secretary-General and the UN

The international debate surrounding the environmental, social and human rights responsibilities of corporations has been gaining momentum. Growing public criticism of transnational corporations and banks has contributed to this debate. The list of criticisms is long...

Jun

2016

Engaging with UN special procedures to advance US social justice

The Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network. Annual Human Rights in the U.S. Symposium/CLE

More information here.

Mar

2016

Advancing women's substantive equality in the implementation of the SDGs

ESCR-Net's Women and ESCR Working Group, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, is pleased to bring together women’s rights...

Oct

2015

Cities and Social Justice / Human Rights & Public Policy in the Americas

This two-part event will bring together New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, journalist and human rights advocate Horacio Verbitsky, urban and community planner Ron Shiffman, urbanist Eduardo Reese, urban rights specialist Edesio Fernandez, and Don D. Chen Director of the...

Sep

2015

Join APWLD for for their people's General Assembly

Governments will be gathering in New York this September to adopt the Post-2015 Development Agenda which will set development priorities for the next 15 years. Unsurprisingly, the Agenda fails to genuinely transform the global architecture that...

Nov

2015

Tapping into the Human Right to Water: Affordability, Quality and Accessibility

November 5-6, 2015. Northeastern University School of Law. Boston, MA

Each fall, the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at...