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International condemnation of raids on the office of Confederación Campesina del Perú

On 17 December 2022, at least 50 members of the national police anti-terrorist...

Ogoni communities condemn the planned resumption of oil extraction in their territory

ESCR-Net member, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni...

Indian villagers continue resistance to corporate takeover of their lands

ESCR-Net members, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) are once again forced to resist the transfer of their land by the government of Odisha, India, to a steel company, despite having previously...

Urban Shack Settlements as a Site of Struggle

On 13 September 2019, S’bu Zikode, the president of Abahlali baseMjondolo and member of ESCR-Net’s Board, was invited to speak at Harvard University on the topic of urban activism.

Grounded in the experience of the...

Members in Brazil repudiate human rights regression under far-right government

Since the early days of the Bolsonaro presidency, ESCR-Net members have repeatedly repudiated human rights harms posed by the far-right government in Brazil. Recently correcting Bolsonaro’s baseless claims about “false human rights” at the recent Davos World...

Groups defend human rights following Bolsonaro election

Multiple ESCR-Net members, human rights organizations and social movements in Brazil and beyond have raised serious concerns following the election far-right retired military officer Jair Bolsonaro to head the world’s fourth-largest democracy.

The groups cite statements made by president...

A long journey on foot against dams on River Indus

Fisherfolk and peasant leaders from the Sindh province of Pakistan organized a 16 day long march against the building of dams on the Indus River on 10 - 25 October 2018. The march was called on by the chair of ESCR-Net member, the ...

Defending the independence of African human rights body

ESCR-Net members, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Initiative for Social and Economic...

Afro-descendants call on Colombian president for equality

Movimiento Afrocolombiano Cimarrón (social movement of Colombian people of African descent) has issued a national call to demand equal rights from the Colombian government. The...

Twenty-four years seeking justice for egregious rights violations caused by the Chixoy dam project

The Chixoy hydroelectric project, located in the Departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz in Guatemala, is responsible for massive human harms, according to ESCR-Net member...

Commemorating Unfreedom Day and the ongoing struggle for dignity in South Africa

Every year on 27 April, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day to commemorate the end of the apartheid regime. On that date in 1994, the country’s first non-racial national elections allowed for the participation of everyone over 18 years old, of any race.

On April 22, the social movement...

Denouncing Law on Consultation tabled without prior consultation

ESCR-Net member Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj (Council of the Wuxhtaj Peoples), an affiliate of the Consejo de Pueblos Maya (Plurinational Council of Maya Peoples) in the Department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, has denounced the...

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