Resources

Member-led webinar on Climate Justice & ESCR - March 2020

ESCR-Net hosted a member-led webinar on Climate Justice & ESCR: Considering Frameworks; Challenging Systems in March 2020.

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Inter-American Court of Human Rights: ESCR-Net Members Present Contributions to Clarify State Obligations in the Face of a Climate Emergency

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, members of the ESCR-Net will present two oral interventions before the Inter-American Court in Barbados. Members will address issues such as loss and damage and ask the Court to rule on climate reparations and on States' obligations to ensure human rights under...

ESCR-Net contributions to the UN to address climate justice with a focus on loss and damage

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Addressing Loss and Damage: Our Call for Accountability and Justice

This advocacy briefing is grounded in the mutual exchange among ESCR-Net members, particularly facilitated through the Working Group on Environment and ESCR. Drawing on years of analysis focused on the realities of climate injustices and the intricate relationship between loss and damage and...

Collective Submission on Loss and Damage to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Climate Change

On 23 June 2022, ESCR-Net members sent a collective submission to the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Mr. Ian Fry, in response to a call for input on “Promotion and protection of human rights in the context of mitigation, adaptation, and financial actions to address climate change, with particular emphasis on loss and damage,” to inform his upcoming report to be presented at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly. The joint submission focused especially on loss and damage. [Read the full submission here].

Confronting Corporate Capture to Advance Climate Justice: A Feminist Perspective

On 14 September, 2021, ESCR-Net hosted a roundtable on Confronting Corporate Capture to Advance Climate Justice: A Feminist...

Member Report: On Climate Justice and Human Rights

On December 2020, the Networkwide Project on Environment & ESCR has released a mapping report: On Climate Justice and Human Rights: Reflections from ESCR-Net members. This report synthesizes the evolving analysis of ESCR-Net members at the intersection of...

Considering Climate Justice in responding to COVID-19

Following the COVID-19 crisis and response, members have highlighted fundamental issues of concern in the context of climate justice, environmental rights and human rights, as well as the opportunity to reflect on what this crisis means in terms of advancing a transformative rights-based agenda...

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action in response to the COVID-19

The Day After Tomorrow: Confronting Systemic Injustices, Advancing Human Rights

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action – already endorsed by 135 members and 40 allies from over 60 countries – advances collective demands for a just recovery and new normal in the face of COVID19

Berta’s murder trial report highlights that justice has not been served

The report released by la Misión de Observación Calificada Caso Berta Cáceres reveals several weakness and flaws in the process relating to the trial for the murder of the Honduran indigenous leader and woman human rights defender (WHRD) Berta Caceres in 2016. The Misión de Observación...