Caselaw Database on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Initiative

The Caselaw Database on ESCR is a collaborative project developed under the leadership of the Centre for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in Argentina, the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) and the Social Rights Advocacy Centre (SRAC) in Canada. It contains examples of instances in which legal strategies have been used successfully to claim ESCR at both the international and national levels.

With this project we seek to encourage discussion of crucial challenges for ESCR advocacy and to inspire joint projects and actions to address those challenges; disseminate tools for a rights-based approach to economic and social justice, and to encourage the use of legal strategies as valid and effective means for claiming economic, social and cultural rights and to increase collaboration and facilitate the exchange of information among NGOs, community-based organizations and other civil society organizations working towards claiming the fulfillment of economic and social rights

To learn more about this initiative and access the Caselaw Database, please click here.

Get involved!

Please subscribe to the justiciability listserve  to send proposals, new cases, and information or share strategies with other ESCR advocates interested on ESCR enforceability.   

Please contact us at rbrown@escr-net.org or write to the justiciability group if you:

• are interested in getting involved in this project

   

   

• have additional information on these or other cases or translations of legal documents or secondary documentation

   

   

• know of other important casesthat should be added

   

   

• want to share new strategiesto adjudicate ESCR·or

   

   

• have proposals for joint actions and project on ESCR adjudication.