Member News

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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Recalling Yemen’s women: a briefing to the UN Security Council
ESCR-Net individual member from Yemen, Rasha Jarhum, briefed the UN Security Council on Friday November 16^th on the impact of the conflict in Yemen on women. In the briefing, Jarhum spoke on behalf of the Peace Track...
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UN Body Adopts Progressive Interpretation of the Right to Life
On 30 October 2018, the Human Rights Committee (HRC) adopted General Comment No. 36on the Right to Life (under Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and...
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Groups defend human rights following Bolsonaro election
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...
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A long journey on foot against dams on River Indus
Fisherfolk and peasant leaders from the Sindh province of Pakistan organized a 16 day long march against the building of dams on the Indus River on 10 - 25 October 2018. The march was called on by the chair of ESCR-Net member, the ...
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Irish Traveller communities in Cork monitor and campaign for social rights
**This article has been originally published by Open Global Rights. The author, Koldo Casla, is a research associate at the Institute of Health &...
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Members help advance regional agreement on environmental justice
ESCR-Net Members Amnesty International (AI), Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ),...
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Defending the independence of African human rights body
ESCR-Net members, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Initiative for Social and Economic...
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Environmental defenders protest corporate capture at the Colombia Constitutional Court
Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida (Environmental Committee in Defense of Life), an environmental and human rights defenders' movement in Colombia, held a symbolic act on Tuesday, October 2, in front of the Palace...
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