Collective Work & Discussions

Monitoring and data in the context of the pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has had wide-reaching impacts on people’s human rights, including economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), largely due to the measures governments have taken to control the spread of infection. Evidence highlighted by ESCR-Net Monitoring Working Group (MWG) members...

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action in response to the COVID-19

The Day After Tomorrow: Confronting Systemic Injustices, Advancing Human Rights

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action – already endorsed by 135 members and 40 allies from over 60 countries – advances collective demands for a just recovery and new normal in the face of COVID19

Altavoz: a practical guide for using parallel reporting to advance women’s rights

ESCR-Net has launched Altavoz, a guide that provides practical information and tools for using parallel reporting to advance women’s economic social and cultural rights and raise international attention on issues of...

ESCR-Net Members Take Up Collective Work on Climate Justice

ESCR-Net members have identified environmental destruction and climate change as one of five common conditions threatening communities globally, highlighting the endlessly extractive nature of our dominant economic system and the commodification of nature. Eco-destruction and climate change...

Calling for development data to be in line with human rights

In occasion of the High Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals held in New York from the 9^th to 18^th July 2019, the Monitoring Working Group of the Network has called for a human rights-based approach to data, including SDG data.

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ESCR-Net Members: Want to see better ESCR data?

Data — especially official data — should align with human rights standards and obligations. It should be available and accessible to human rights advocates and communities in ways that makes it truly useful and relevant for informing decisions that affect their lives...

Building an alternative narrative on ESCR data

In Mexico City, from the 29 January – 2 February, the Monitoring Working Group of ESCR-Net held its first strategy meeting. The meeting brought together 20 members of ESCR-Net to discuss key challenges in using data to advance socioeconomic rights, develop a shared analysis of how data should...

Watch: Video animation on Corporate Capture

ESCR-Net members have increasingly been using the term “corporate capture” to refer to the means by which an economic elite undermine the realization of human rights and the environment by exerting undue influence over domestic and international decision-makers and public institutions.

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Webinar on Using technical evidence for strategic ESCR litigation

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Advancing network-wide collective action and campaigning

From 22-25 July, 31 member representatives from 17 countries met in Durban, South Africa, organized with Abahlali baseMjondolo and the ...

Webinar on ‘How do we effectively monitor ESCR?’

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Communities telling their own stories: a report on our experiences

Data and evidence can play a crucial role in advancing social justice and human rights. Yet ESCR-Net members have recognized that too often data production does not reflect the lived realities of peoples who face poverty, inequality and injustice.

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