Collective Work

Amicus Details How Effective Criminalization of Obstetric Emergencies is Intersectional Gender Discrimination

The Feminist Alliance for Rights (FAR)/Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), International Women’s Rights Action Watch - Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP), and...

Amicus reaffirms States’ human rights obligations to adequately and effectively address the climate crisis

On May 6^th, several human rights organizations submitted a joint third-party intervention in Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and others, the first climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The intervenors drew on international, regional...

Urgent appeal: Call for urgent action to secure universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – a global network connecting over 280 nongovernmental organizations, social movements and advocates across more than 75 countries – submitted an...

Organizations Urge the Creation of Community-Based Mental Health Care Model that Ensures the Rights of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

This past December, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ),...

Opinion: Democratizing data is key for addressing inequalities during COVID-19

**Exclusion in data—which often reflects society’s values and biases about who and what counts—means exclusion in reality when it comes to crises and public policy.**

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Members Urge Full Implementation of Systemic Gender Equality and Social Security Rights in UN Ecuador Case Concerning Unpaid Care Work

Case Filing Contributes to Collective Initiative to Develop a Feminist Global Social Pact on Care

Last month, in the case of ...

ESCR-Net Members Address UN Committee on it's Opening of its Current 2020 Session

"For too long, brutal and illegal evictions have been terrorizing communities, even during a pandemic that requires us to stay at home for public health reasons. We therefore demand an end to all evictions in our cities. We demand an end to all land dispossession, utilities cut offs
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Members File Amicus in Ugandan Case on the Right to Food in the Context of the Pandemic

This August, several ESCR-Net members of the Strategic Litigation Working Group submitted an amicus curiae brief (in English) at the Court of Appeal of Uganda concerning the right to food in the context of the COVID-19...

Inter-American Court Recognizes Rights to Food, Water, Healthy Environment, and Cultural Identity in Lhaka Honhat Case

In Lhaka Honhat v. Argentina, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held that Argentina violated its obligations under Article 1.1 of the American...

Realizing the right to housing for all requires counting everyone: third-party submission to the Supreme Court of Mexico

Update: On June 17, 2020, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in Mexico ruled unanimously that the statistics bureau, INEGI, must indeed include informal settlements officially in the census. The...

Collective Engagement to Strengthen the Realization of ESCR via the United Nations

On March 3, 2020, a group of Strategic Litigation Working Group (SLWG) and Monitoring Working Group (MWG) members discussed working methods and rights enforcement with members of the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR), as well as...

Meeting United Nations - Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

Statement: Human Rights must be prioritized in responding to COVID-19

ESCR-Net, in discussion with the Board and members co-organizing upcoming events and actions, made the difficult decision to cancel all events at least through the end of May 2020. In doing so, members repeatedly raised the need to advocate for the primacy of human rights in any immediate...