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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

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 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

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

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United States of America
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Corporate Accountability
Economic Policy
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On Saturday, February 8, 2014, the Poverty Initiative and Kairos Center will bring over 70 leaders to the Moral March in Raleigh, North Carolina organized by the sisters and brothers of Historic Thousands on Jones Street who have been leading the Moral Mondays struggle. 

On January 28th, the  to the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court to address recent legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act which has been promoted in the US in by the current administration in an effort to ensure access to health care.

Wal-Mart, the largest grocery retailer in the United States, joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program, forever changing the landscape of social responsibility in the food industry. Wal-Mart representatives and leaders from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers sent an unmistakable message: human rights will be the new norm in U.S. agriculture.

ESCR-Net's Social Movement Working Group brings together social movements to forge new alliances, promote mutual learning and advance collaborative work