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Senior grassroots leaders deepen connections between social movements

Eighteen grassroots leaders from eight countries came together in the Gulf Region of the US in a small meeting of ESCR-Net’s Social Movement Working Group. The participants, senior-level...

CELS and The New School is organizing an event on Cities and Social Justice in the Americas

The Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), The New School and the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) | Global Urban Futures Project (Milano) organice the event: Cities & Social Justice: Human Rights & Public Policy in the Americas on October...

Hillary Clinton aides' Wall Street links raise economic policy doubts

Tom Nides and Robert Hormats, once of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, are veterans of the revolving door between Washington and the financial sector.

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ESCR-Net Director publishes article analyzing the ongoing struggle for the right to water in Detroit

ESCR-Net Members have supported the ongoing struggle of Detroit communities to resist the denial of water and sanitation to over 30,000 households. In conversation with the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO), the Strategic Litigation Working Group submitted an...

ESCR-Net releases report of six cases of corporate capture

ESCR-Net have developed a Scoping Report highlighting six cases of corporate capture in different industries and across different regions. The Scoping Report is a preliminary...

ESCR-Net engages in international meetings on human rights to water, sanitation and housing in Detroit

ESCR-Net participated in strategy meetings in Detroit, Michigan, related to the ongoing denial of human rights to water, sanitation and housing to thousands of residents in the former industrial capital of the USA. The gathering was coordinated by those at the front of the grassroots struggle...

CSW59 Side Event: Advancing Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ESCR-Net's Women and ESCR Working Group will host a side event during CSW59 to assess the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action during the last two decades

ESCR-Net has now been granted leave from the U.S. District Court to be recognized as amicus curiae in the case of City of Detroit

The Network supports residents’ challenge to the City of Detroit’s decision to cut off water supply to thousands of households unable to pay their bills

ESCR-Net challenges large-scale disconnection of water supply to tens of thousands of low-income residents in Detroit

ESCR-Net has requested leave from the U.S. District Court to be recognized as amicus curiae in support of residents challenging the City of Detroit’s decision to cut off water supply to thousands of households unable to pay their bills

New Poor People’s Campaign

Kairos: The Center for Religion, Rights and Social Justice and Poverty Initiative call for a New Poor People’s Campaign for Today