Multiple ESCR-Net members, human rights organizations and social movements in Brazil and beyond have raised serious concerns following the election far-right retired military officer Jair Bolsonaro to head the world’s fourth-largest democracy.

The groups cite statements made by president...

**This article has been originally published by Open Global Rights. The author, Koldo Casla, is a research associate at the Institute of Health &...

ESCR-Net members, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Initiative for Social and Economic...

A toothless tool? First impressions on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights

Authored by ESCR-Net members: Gabriela Kletzel & Andrés López Cabello, Centro de Estudios...

Movimiento Afrocolombiano Cimarrón (social movement of Colombian people of African descent) has issued a national call to demand equal rights from the Colombian government. The...