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Ecuador - Discrimination and Right to Health Violations Found in the Case Person with Psychosocial Disability

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a judgment in Guachalá Chimbó and Others vs. Ecuador, finding intersectional discrimination based on disability and class and violations of the right to...

Background document: Corporate Capture of Our Healthcare Systems

Corporate Capture of Our Healthcare Systems Derails Health Equity

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Members Discuss Resisting Evictions Amid COVID with UN Special Rapporteur on Housing

On 20 April 2021, ESCR-Net members from around the world convened for an exchange with the UN Special Rapporteur on Housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal on the question of resisting evictions amid COVID-19. Upholding housing rights during the pandemic has been a focus of work for many members from...

Collective letter to the President of Colombia – Stop the violence against human rights defenders

In a little more than a year, ESCR-Net has sent a second collective letter to the President of Colombia, Iván Duque Márquez, regarding new threats allegedly from the...

ESCR-Net's interventions in the Human Rights Council 2021

During this year’s 47th session of the Human Rights Council, the following members Mihir Mankad(Center for Economic and Social Rights), Debbi Stothard (...

Opinion: Capitalism and the COVID-19 pandemic

An overhaul of the economic system is long overdue: the signs were all there in 2020 but a year into the pandemic, the rich have grown richer and governments continue to sacrifice lives for the illusion of economic growth.

The term “late capitalism” picked up traction in the 2010s,...

Networkwide Exchange on Securing Land Rights for People and the Planet

On 27 April 2021, ESCR-Net co-hosted an online discussion on land rights. Over 50 members from across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America, convened virtually to learn from each other’s experiences and strengthen shared analysis and...

Amicus Details How Effective Criminalization of Obstetric Emergencies is Intersectional Gender Discrimination

The Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR)/Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), International Women’s Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), and...

ESCR-Net stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people

Over the last few months, Israeli courts have upheld unjust “eviction” orders contrary to international law to forcibly displace Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, in order to transfer Israeli settlers therein. In response, Palestinian...

Amicus reaffirms States’ human rights obligations to adequately and effectively address the climate crisis

On May 6^th, several human rights organizations submitted a joint third-party intervention in Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and others, the first climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The intervenors drew on international, regional...

ESCR Net condemns violence against demonstrators in Colombia and calls on the State to respect human rights.

ESCR-Net condemns violence against demonstrators in Colombia and calls on the State to respect human rights.

On April 28, 2021, various sectors of Colombian society took to the streets to protest proposed tax increases on basic needs, fuel and public services. These...

Urgent appeal: Call for urgent action to secure universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – a global network connecting over 280 nongovernmental organizations, social movements and advocates across more than 75 countries – submitted an...

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