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As a network of over 300 social movements, organizations and human rights defenders from 80 countries, ESCR-Net (International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights) is united in our solidarity with the people of Kenya, who have exercised their human rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, denouncing the punitive Finance Bill, 2024, which the government was ultimately forced to withdraw at the end of June. Their large-scale participation in protests exemplifies a steadfast commitment to upholding economic, social, cultural and environmental rights (ESCER), which are essential to human dignity and social justice.

This year, two of the most important climate litigation cases in which ESCR-Net has intervened had rulings from the European Court of Human Rights. On April 9, 2024, the Court handed down long-awaited judgments in two cases examining States’ climate change obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: the cases of KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho.