Prior to Spain’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in front of the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) highlighted the effect of austerity measures on a number
A community group's campaign to change mental health care policy, using a participatory, “bottom-up” approach to setting human rights indicators and benchmarks defined by group members themselves. The Belfast Mental Health Rights Group—a group of service users,...
Welcome to September’s monthly discussion, which continues the theme of participatory monitoring! I’m Jessica Mayberry from Video Volunteers and I’ll be facilitating the discussion this month. Video...
This month we changed the format of our Monthly Discussions to focus on cross-cutting issues of ESCR monitoring in the hope of enticing examples and more discussion from our Working Group members. Many thanks to our Working Group...
Hi everyone and welcome to July’s monthly discussion on “Getting Started on New Monitoring Project”. I’m Allison Corkery, from the Center for Economic and Social Rights and one of the co-coordinators of the Working Group. I’ll be...
In our June discussion, Diego de la Mora from FUNDAR, Radhika Balikrishna from CWGL, Dalile Atunez from ACIJ, and Allison Corkery from CESR discussed challenges and opportunities for monitoring tax policy—sharing insights from an...
Several working group members recently participated in an International Strategy Meeting on Advancing Tax Justice through Human Rights in Lima, Peru which brought together human rights...
