Economic Policy

The Economic Policy and Human Rights Working Group seeks to develop critical analysis of the global economic system via the human rights framework, facilitate collective advocacy to challenge unjust structures and policies, and promote alternative models of development.

Systemic Critique Project

This project aims to deepen and popularize a human rights-based understanding of the dominant socio-economic system that is characterized by capitalism. Guided by grassroots struggles, the project will inform ESCR-Net strategies and shared alternatives to “make human rights and social justice a reality for all”. It will also support a growing number of members and allies to understand the structures and conditions that obstruct human rights as a basis for building solidarity and collective action.

Timeline of Capitalism: an interactive tool to understand the dominant socio-economic system throughout history

 

Principles of Political Education

Resources

The UK is a profoundly unequal society. This distribution of income is more unequal than the average in both the EU and...
Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth-U.S., Sierra Club, and the WWF European Policy Office with the...
This guide by Inclusive Development International (IDI), titled Safeguarding People and the Environment in Chinese...
This is the third edition of the report, Integrating Human Rights into Development : Donor Approaches, Experiences and...

About the Economic Policy Working Group

The Economic Policy Working Group (EPWG) involves members from all regions—social movements, NGOs and academics—committed to making human rights and social justice a reality for all.  Initially formed in 2004, the EPWG has collectively addressed issues related to trade, export credit agencies, austerity and development finance, while raising critiques of the wider economic system and elevating alternative models of development.

For more information please contact Collins Liko, Economic Policy Coordinator, at cliko@escr-net.org