Member News

FTDES launches campaign for working women’s health rights
The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) launched a solidarity campaign for women working in the textile industry. The campaign calls for women’s full access to health care...
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Calling on Jordan to raise its national minimum wage
Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights urges the Jordanian government to increase the national minimum wage and to include immigrant workers and refugees. The move is a response to growing impoverishment of people living in...
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Push back on state attempt to undermine inter-American human rights system
Earlier this May, over 200 civil society organizations expressed their alarm over recent state actions to debilitate the inter-American human rights system. The...
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Indigenous communities demand reparations for human rights violations
Indigenous communities, including ESCR-Net member Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de las Víctimas de la Violencia en las Veraces, Maya Achi (ADIVIMA), have...
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Members deepen corporate accountability alliance in Buenos Aires
On 20 March 2019, ESCR-Net members,Fundación Promoción Humana, Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y...
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UN resolution recognizes environmental defenders
On 21 March 2019, the United Nations Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a landmark resolution to protect environmental human rights defenders. Several ESCR-Net members, have engaged in a...
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Cambodian indigenous communities win back their sacred land from Vietnamese rubber developer

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Resisting human rights violations in West Africa
ESCR-Net members have been engaged in several actions in opposition to Luxembourg registered agri-business Socfin Group and its operations in several Western African countries.

Liberian members...
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Release database of business engaged in Israeli settlements
Last week ESCR-Net members called on UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to publicly release the UN...
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Egyptian prisons must respect women’s bodily and health needs

The Egyptian Initiative or Personal Rights (EIPR), launched a campaign calling on the Egyptian prison authorities to provide, free of charge, sanitary pads to female...
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Members in Brazil repudiate human rights regression under far-right government

Since the early days of the Bolsonaro presidency, ESCR-Net members have repeatedly repudiated human rights harms posed by the far-right government in Brazil. Recently correcting Bolsonaro’s baseless claims about “false human rights” at the recent Davos World...
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Calling attention to attacks against indigenous human rights defenders
On the eve of International Human Rights Day, which is celebrated each 10 December, ESCR-Net members drew attention to the often-overlooked attacks on indigenous rights defenders in an article published in the global news outlet Al-Jazeera.

The authors of the article, Alfred Brownell...
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