Member News

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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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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