Member News

Otros Mundos participates in a coalition in defense of water in Mexico

ESCR-Net member Otros Mundos AC has joined with 10 other social organizations from Chiapas to denounce the form of natural resource management - particularly related to water - promoted...

Justiça Global’s report elaborates on the state of human rights after the tailing dam collapse in Brazil

ESCR-net member Justiça Global published a report Inside the Vale of Mud elaborating on an...

MAB calls for justice for disappeared grassroots leader

The Dam-Affected Movement of Brazil (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens – MAB) calls for justice and a thorough, independent and impartial investigation following the disappearance of...

Agribusiness Syngenta found responsible for armed attack on encamped rural workers in Brazil

Terra de Direitos celebrated a major legal victory this past week when the Civil Court of Cascavel ruled that the agribusiness, Syngenta, is responsible for the death of a landless activist who was...

Sri Lanka: NAFSO releases a report on the reality of displaced people in Jaffna District

The National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) of Sri Lanka, together with Internally Displaced People (IDP) of Jaffna, have released the report...

Belo Monte Operating License can not be granted without guarantee of rights

According to the Brazilian Platform of Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Human Rights (DhESCA Brazil), the National Council of Human Rights (CNDH) has...

The Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj denounces new assault on indigenous peoples

In a statement released on August 6, 2015, the Consejo del Pueblo Wuxhtaj (CPW) of Guatemala denounced what is tantamount to a new assault on the Wuxhtaj people as a result of activities advancing hydroelectric projects.

In March of this...

Women’s assembly to build women’s power in South Africa

Women’s League of Abahlali baseMjondolo, part of ESCR-Net's member Abahlali baseMjondolo, delivered the following statement on the occasion of Women's Day.

The Abahlali Women's...

National Union of Domestic Workers of Trinidad and Tobago fighting for the rights of domestic workers

The National Union of Domestic Employees (NUDE) of Trinidad and Tobago is campaigning to secure recognition for domestic workers as workers under the Industrial Relations Act, organizing around a Caribbean-wide...

Anti-Posco activists observe Black Day

On June 22, 2015, under the banner of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (the ‘anti-POSCO people’s movement,’ or PPSS), hundreds of villagers observed Black day at Patna village to mark the 10th Anniversary of the signing of an MOU between the government of Odisha in...

Brazil: National Human Rights Council verifies violations caused by Belo Monte

At request of Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragems (MAB), a group of the National Human Rights Council were in Altamira last week to prove the allegations of rights violations that are occurring with the...

Arpilleras: embroidering the resistance in Brazil

MAB launches documentry to denounce the violation of women's rights during the construction of dams in Brazil