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The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the failures of the global economic system and deepening its inherent injustices and inequalities. The Common Charter for Collective Struggle, initially drafted by movement members and adopted by ESCR-Net in late 2016, outlines five conditions facing communities around the world, including impoverishment and dispossession amid abundance, deepening inequality, corporate capture of government decision-making, climate change and growing repression.

Following the COVID-19 crisis and response, members have highlighted fundamental issues of concern in the context of climate justice, environmental rights and human rights, as well as  the opportunity to reflect on what this crisis means in terms of advancing a transformative rights-based agenda on climate.