ESCR-Net members, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) are once again forced to resist the transfer of their land by the government of Odisha, India, to a steel company, despite having previously...
On 13 September 2019, S’bu Zikode, the president of Abahlali baseMjondolo and member of ESCR-Net’s Board, was invited to speak at Harvard University on the topic of urban activism.
In a newly released report Manipulative Ways, ESCR-Net member, The Democracy Center, outlines several strategies used by global corporations to dispossess...
Tamkeen Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights urges the Jordanian government to increase the national minimum wage and to include immigrant workers and refugees. The move is a response to growing impoverishment of people living in...
Earlier this May, over 200 civil society organizations expressed their alarm over recent state actions to debilitate the inter-American human rights system. The...
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...
