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18
Jan
2016

International Forum on Human Rights

International Forum on research, prosecution and punishment of torture and mistreatment. This event is addressed to victims of human rights violation, advocates and all public interested. The objective of this space is to educate and prevent the violation of human rights and to share experiences...

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05
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...

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26
Oct
2015

Peoples' Forum on Human Rights and Business 2015

The Peoples' Forum on Human Rights and Business is an annual opportunity for representatives from all corners of the corporate accountability movement to be together to form coordinated activities to address corporate human rights abuses.

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07
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...

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05
Oct
2015

Paradigm Shift or Lost Opportunity?

Agenda 2030, a new global sustainable development framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), will be adopted at the United Nations General

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27
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...

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11
Sep
2015

Using a Human Rights Defender Framework in the Struggle for Black Liberation

Black Lives Matter’s stated mission is to broaden the conversation around state violence to include all of the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state, including the state’s impoverishment of...

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30
Aug
2015

2nd Regional Feminist Forum to be held in Sri Lanka

The Forum will bring together South Asian feminists including PWESCR’s Leadership Institute Leaders from South Asia to discuss and debate with creativity, passion and rigour the strategies for a regional women’s network to advance women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR). The Forum...

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26
Aug
2015

Advancing Women's ESCR: alternative visions of development, land and property rights

Struggles for women’s rights related to housing, land and property (HLP) reinforce the interdependence of economic, political, social, civil and cultural rights while highlighting the disproportionate impacts suffered by women and the gender-specific ways in which...

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25
Aug
2015

Realizing Women’s ESC Rights in Post-War Sri Lanka

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies in collaboration with the Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR) is pleased to invite you to a...

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19
Jun
2015

Symposium on Violence, Health, and Sexual and Reproductive Rights

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The numerous forms of violence that are exercised against women pose an obstacle to their individual development, violate their rights and limit their freedoms. Violence against women blocks the

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18
Jun
2015

The role of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ESCR in securing access to justice at all levels

Advancing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR):

The role of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ESCR in securing access to justice at all levels

Welcome remarks: H.E Mr. Pedro Nuno ...

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