ESCR-Net Newsletter - July 2010

Publish Date: 
Friday, August 3, 2012

  

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What's in this Issue?       

INSTITUTIONAL NEWS

  • ESCR-Net Welcomes Our Newest Members
  • Location of the Secretariat

ADJUDICATION OF ESCR

  • ESCR Strategic Litigation Project
  • ESCR-Justice: Monthly Caselaw Update
  • Expansion of the Caselaw Database
  • OP-ICESCR Ratification Campaign:
    - Update on Ratifications
    - Advocacy Kit on Ratification Strategies for the OP-ICESCR
    - CESCR Elections
    - CESCR Committee Activities

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

  • Corporate Accountability in the United States Universal Periodic Review
  • UN Advocacy on Business and Human Rights
  • The Business and Human Rights Documentation (B-HRD) Project

ECONOMIC POLICY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  • Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Global Economic Crisis
  • Human Rights in the Global Economy: A Colloquium
  • Economic Policy in the United States Universal Periodic Review
  • Bridging Trade, Investment, Finance and Human Rights: A Pilot Project in Agriculture
  • Extra-territorial Obligations (ETO) Consortium Work

BUDGET ANALYSIS AND ESCR

  • New Website - Human Rights Budget Work Around the World

WOMEN AND ESCR

  • Advocacy within UN Bodies - CEDAW and CESCR
  • Caselaw Database

 

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND GRASSROOTS GROUPS

  • Third Solidarity Visit and Human Rights Mutual-Learning Workshop
  • Video Documentary Project

URGENT ACTION APPEALS

  • Urgent Action: Attack against convoy of international human rights observers in Oaxaca, México