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In memory of Nagi
ESCR-Net member, Habi Center for Environmental Rights, has lost a longstanding leader in the struggle for environmental rights and social justice. Mohamed "Nagi" Ibrahim Mohamed Salem has represented...
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Denouncing attack against an indigenous human rights defender confronting mining in Ecuador
The Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas (Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations, or CAOI) denounced a violent attack against its General Coordinator Yaku Pérez Guartambel. Mr. Pérez is a leader of the Kañari people of Ecuador...
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Twenty-four years seeking justice for egregious rights violations caused by the Chixoy dam project
The Chixoy hydroelectric project, located in the Departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz in Guatemala, is responsible for massive human harms, according to ESCR-Net member...
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Gaza blockade posing serious threats to economic, social and cultural rights

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Commemorating Unfreedom Day and the ongoing struggle for dignity in South Africa
Every year on 27 April, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day to commemorate the end of the apartheid regime. On that date in 1994, the country’s first non-racial national elections allowed for the participation of everyone over 18 years old, of any race.

On April 22, the social movement...
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Bus tour across Europe to promote minimum income schemes
On 24 April, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), which coordinates the European Minimum Income Network, launched a bus tour across Europe to raise awareness of the importance of adequate,...
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Denouncing Law on Consultation tabled without prior consultation
ESCR-Net member Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj (Council of the Wuxhtaj Peoples), an affiliate of the Consejo de Pueblos Maya (Plurinational Council of Maya Peoples) in the Department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, has denounced the...
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Civil society denounces for-profit ICT4D network of schools
In March, 88 civil society organizations joined voices in a collective letter urging prominent financial investors to stop backing Bridge International Academies (BIA), a multinational for-profit corporate network running more than 500 schools in Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Uganda and India....
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Unemployed youth activism set stage for new economic policies in Tunisia
Le Forum Tunsien pour les Droits Economiques et Sociaux (FTDES) urged the Tunisian government to adopt a comprehensive development plan in the Gafsa region that respects the economic, social,...
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UN Expert reports on austerity measures and human rights
In the recent Human Rights Council session (37th session, March 2018), after consulting with civil society organizations and various stakeholders, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky — the UN Independent Expert on the effects of state’s foreign debt and finance on human rights — released a...
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Israeli forces urged to stop deadly actions against fishermen in Gaza
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemned the recent killing of one fisherman and detention of others working off Gaza’s coast, stressing that the silence and lack of action by the international community has...
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Inter-American court upholds healthy environment as human right
In February 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark advisory opinion that explicitly affirmed the right to a healthy environment as “fundamental to the existence of humanity.”

Amidst rising international concern about the human rights implications of a trans-...
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