The project aims to build shared analysis and coordinate advocacy actions on debt, taxation, and trade, particularly on unsustainable debts and conditionalities, retrogressive and regressive taxation, and the influx of unfair trade policies threatening the progressive realization of ESCRs. The project facilitates mutual exchanges and learning spaces to generate a deeper understanding among members of the challenges within the global economic system, their origins, structural drivers, and their impacts on the realization and enjoyment of human rights. This analysis informs the development of resources and popular education materials, and collective advocacy actions targeting major actors such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and relevant UN bodies and mechanisms.
10/09/2026
Article | News & Events
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group gather in Bangkok, Thailand, for their 2026 Annual Meetings, ESCR-Net will join its members and allies from October 11 to 16 to demand an economic system that puts people, their human rights and the environment first.



















