ESCR Resources
Nazdeek has partnered with communities in Delhi to develop effective and accessible strategies for monitoring essential services that they are legally entitled to, seek redressal of individual right violations, and, at a collective level, advocate for systemic improvements in the delivery of...
Published: Jun 11 2018 - 6:28am
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
This report explores how Rural, indigenous, migrant, and urban poor (RIMUP) women in nine countries strengthened their fights against increased inequality and marginalization through a Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR). The program 'Changing Development Inside Out' was facilitated by...
Published: Jun 7 2018 - 9:20am
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), in collaboration with the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC), released a study presenting the findings of a human rights-based analysis of the forced eviction and relocation of flood-affected communities in the...
Published: Aug 8 2017 - 12:56pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) collaborated with two other organizations, Fields of View and the Forum against EWS Land Grab, to conduct a study and publish an impact assessment. The purpose of this is to highlight the real extent of the losses and costs incurred by the community as a...
Published: Aug 1 2017 - 1:21pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
PLACE created a website, The Politics of Death, investigating the causes of unjustifiable deaths of human rights’ defenders, mothers, professors, civilians, and the population as a whole, in order to highlight the need for worldwide security. The website consists of statistics, brief reports,...
Published: Jul 27 2017 - 1:49pm
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) made a submission, in May 2013, to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The submission was made for consideration at the 51st Pre-sessional Working Group of CESCR and primarily...
Published: Jul 18 2017 - 12:37pm
Just Fair and Doctors of the World UK collaborated to launch a report which denounces the Memorandum of Understanding that allows immigration authorities to access non-clinical personal information. The report makes note that through such access, the Memorandum undermines patients’ right to health...
Published: Jul 6 2017 - 2:43pm
La Fundación para el Debido Proceso (DPLF, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Red de Cooperación Amazónica (RCA) lanzan hoy la publicación "Derecho a la Consulta y Consentimiento de los Pueblos Indígenas, Quilombolas y Comunidades Tradicionales" en Brasil. El derecho a la consulta y al consentimiento...
Published: Mar 6 2017 - 10:41am
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
What’s the right to the city? Inputs for the New Urban Agenda.The Global Platform for the Right to the City emerged from the initiative of several organizations working on the theme around the world and from the need to pro- mote and mobilize national and local governments, international and...
Published: Jun 18 2016 - 1:57pm
Ekta Parishad is preparing to launch a new campaign for poor and marginalized people called Jai Jagat 2020. “Jagat,” in Hindi, means “all people in the world”.
Ekta Parishad has, since its inception, focused on the lives of poor people and organization of marginalized communities and their...
Published: Jul 20 2017 - 12:21pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member