Collective Work

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...

A call for comprehensive human rights redress

As human rights violations underscored and worsened by the coronavirus pandemic reverberate around the world, the realization of environmental, economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) provides the path forward for any lawful and effective response. ESCR-Net’s Strategic Litigation Working...

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action in response to the COVID-19

The Day After Tomorrow: Confronting Systemic Injustices, Advancing Human Rights

ESCR-Net Global Call to Action – already endorsed by 135 members and 40 allies from over 60 countries – advances collective demands for a just recovery and new normal in the face of COVID19

ESCR-Net Members Take Up Collective Work on Climate Justice

ESCR-Net members have identified environmental destruction and climate change as one of five common conditions threatening communities globally, highlighting the endlessly extractive nature of our dominant economic system and the commodification of nature. Eco-destruction and climate change...

Members and partners gathered to consider environmental human rights litigation

From 11-14 June 2019, the Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), the Open Society Forum, and the Strategic...

June workshop on environmental human rights litigation

ESCR-Net, together with the Centre for Human Rights and Development and in partnership with the Open Society Forum, will host its first of a series of economic, social and...

Amicus presented in indigenous rights case before Inter-American Court

This past March, eight members—Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, Amnesty International,...

ESCR-Net Members: Want to see better ESCR data?

Data — especially official data — should align with human rights standards and obligations. It should be available and accessible to human rights advocates and communities in ways that makes it truly useful and relevant for informing decisions that affect their lives...