The 8 members of IAP’s Global Advocacy Team represent communities that have experienced, or will experience forced evictions as a result of a development project. In order to...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha, and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) concluded today in Buenos Aires an international expert consultation...
If you are planning to assist the 4th UN Business and Human Rights Forum (16 - 18 November in Geneva), the app “Geneva Human Rights Agenda” could be of use to you. It will help you organise your agenda during...
Several ESCR-Net members, including ACIJ, CELS, CESR, Dejusticia and Fundar, participated in the thematic hearing on fiscal policy and human rights at the 156th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), held in Washington DC on 22 October 2015...
On 7 October 2015, the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras) held a launch, in Barcelona, for its recently-published 2012-2014 Regional Assessment Report on violence against women human rights defenders in...
A group organizations, including several ESCR-Net members, have expressed concern that the British government could be violating the right to education with its support for the growth of private...
AIDA and other civil society organizations finally celebrated the temporary and preventive suspension of aerial spraying with glyphosate as an advance in the protection of public health and the right to a healthy environment in Colombia....
Several organizations of Mexican civil society, including several ESCR-Net members, sent on October 5, 2015 an open letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, on the occasion of his visit to...
On the afternoon of October 1st 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted by majority a resolution where it decides that the open-ended intergovernmental working group, with the
In the context of the preparatory process for the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Human Development (Habitat III, Quito, October 2016), and inspired by World Habitat Day 2015, the...