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Announcement: Second Community-Led Research on Loss and Damage Resulting From Climate Change

We are excited to launch the second community-led research project, which will explore and amplify communities’ perspectives on losses and damages resulting from climate change, particularly non-economic losses. This initiative will provide learning space and support for six social movements and grassroots groups to gather the data and evidence to counter losses and damages resulting from climate change.

Juana Toledo (Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj Guatemala) CLR project

Leveraging Data for Meaningful Progress Towards Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

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Press Release: Serbia joins the group of countries where discriminatory government-driven algorithms are challenged in court

On November 28, an international coalition of human rights organizations filed a legal opinion before the Constitutional Court of Serbia requesting judicial review of the Social Card Law – a law touted as promoting efficiency in the social protection system, but which the organizations argue falls within a dangerous global trend of digitalization of welfare state systems that is punishing and violating the human rights of the most marginalized communities.

Collective Position on Data for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

Data is necessary for the realization of human rights. Without it we cannot understand the prevailing human rights situation, we cannot make informed policy decisions, and we cannot assess the effectiveness of those policy decisions. But there is a human rights data gap.

Using digital media for campaigning: grassroots groups share their experiences

How can grassroots organizations leverage digital media to support their campaigns? What resources are needed? Last January (6th-11th), ESCR-Net members National Fisheries Solidarity Organisation (NAFSO) and the Blue Club held a workshop on media campaigning in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 27 activists from across the country, the majority of whom were young people, participated in the training.

Democratizing data: Challenging dominant narratives

The Monitoring Working Group has been working on a collective position on data and ESCR to challenge dominant narratives about what types of data count in public decision-making.

Data is vital for the...

Opinion: Democratizing data is key for addressing inequalities during COVID-19

**Exclusion in data—which often reflects society’s values and biases about who and what counts—means exclusion in reality when it comes to crises and public policy.**

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Community-led research on corporate capture and the rights to land, housing and natural resources

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Interview with Channsita Mark, Workers' Information Center (Cambodia)

Community-led monitoring Series: Interview with Channsita Mark, coordinator of the Workers' Information Center (Cambodia)

We truly believe in this empowered approach for workers to challenge themselves within status quo, and bring them to another stage to show up and
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Realizing the right to housing for all requires counting everyone: third-party submission to the Supreme Court of Mexico

Update: On June 17, 2020, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in Mexico ruled unanimously that the statistics bureau, INEGI, must indeed include informal settlements officially in the census. The...

Talking about data with grassroots women leaders

Summary of discussions with grassroots women leaders in Chiang Mai,Thailand, August 2019

One of the aims of the Monitoring Working Group is to support community-led monitoring and documentation across the Network. To this end, we participated to the...

Collective Engagement to Strengthen the Realization of ESCR via the United Nations

On March 3, 2020, a group of Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) and Monitoring Working Group (MWG) members discussed working methods and rights enforcement with members of the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR), as well as...

Meeting United Nations - Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

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