Member News

Challenging discrimination against Arab Minority bus passengers in Tel Aviv
The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Adalah has sent a letter to Israeli authorities responsible for the central bus station in Tel Aviv to demand an...
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Justiça Global condemns police violence in Río de Janeiro
Justiça Global - an ESCR-Net member - has denounced as unacceptable attacks committed by Brazilian armed forces in the favelas of Río de Janeiro. According to Justiça Global, Brazil is...
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Just Fair runs a campaign on socioeconomic equality for everyone in the UK

Just Fair, together with The Equality Trust and others
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Video Volunteers advocates to reduce the price of menstrual products for rural women in India
Video Volunteers (VV) runs India's only reporting network that is focused exclusively on providing broad coverage from the poorest, most media-dark districts in India. Their...
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AWID publishes brief advocating for stricter financial regulation
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), published a policy brief, Illicit Financial Flows: Why we should claim these resources for...
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The Democracy Center co-hosts video conference with activists on the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador
The Democracy Center co-hosted the first of two video conferences with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), as part of their efforts to help document successful campaigns against...
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African Commission grants landmark compensation of US $2.5 million to DRC massacre victims
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo responsible for the 2004 massacre of over 70 people in Kilwa, in the southeast of the country, and granted a landmark compensation of US $2.5 million to the victims and...
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Several members call on advocacy action to the government of Tanzania to stop threatening rights groups
Eighteen national and international non-governmental organizations, including ESCR- Net Members, Amnesty International, ...
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Several ESCR-Net members call on investors to cease support for Bridge International Academies
Several ESCR-Net Members with the coordination of Initiative for Economic and Social Rights (ISER) and ...
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HLRN publishes a report on the eviction impact in a EWS settlement in India
The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), part of the Habitat International Coalition, collaborated with two other organizations, Fields of View and the Forum against EWS Land Grab, in order to conduct a study and produce an impact assessment on the current, negative effects...
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IATP publishes report on the negative effects of agricultural dumping
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) recently published a report, ...
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OBS denounces public attacks against Palestinian human rights groups
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OBS), a joint program between ESCR-Net members International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and ...
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