November 2011 Newsletter

Publish Date: 
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

 

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What's in this Issue?

INSTITUTIONAL NEWS

  • ESCR-Net Staff Transitions
  • Follow ESCR-Net on Twitter

ADJUDICATION OF ESCR

  • Optional Protocol to the ICESCR - Ratification Campaign
  • Strategic Litigation and Initiative
  • Enforcement of Judgements
  • Member Support
  • ESCR Justice: Monthly Caselaw Update

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

  • Launch of the Business and Human Rights Documentation (B-HRD) Project
  • Op-Ed "High Tech, Low Pay: Let the Workers Behind Our Electronics Be Heard" 
  • Advocacy on Business and Human Rights in the United Nations Human Rights Council 
  • "Democratizing Global Economic Governance: Networks, Knowledge Infrastructure, and Civil Societ Capacity in the Americas"

ECONOMIC POLICY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

  • A Bottom-up Approach to Righting Financial Regulation

WOMEN AND ESCR

  • Capacity Building
  • Making Linkages

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND GRASSROOTS GROUPS

  • Human Rights and Land
  • Documenting experiences of social movements utilizing human rights to promote rights to lands, territories and natural resources
  • Project: Strategic Support to Communities Confronting Development-Induced Forced Displacement 
  • Solidarity Actions

URGENT ACTION APPEALS

  • Pakistan: Justice and protection for fisherfolk mobilizing in defense of human rights
  • India: Stop forcible land acquisitions and the repression of dissent
  • Mexico: Respect for the right of workers to organize 

OTHER INITIATIVES

  • Extra Terrirorial Obligations (ETO) Consortium