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Social Movements Gather in Durban: Strengthening Solidarity and Building Alternatives

On 7 – 11 February 2023, ESCR-Net social movement members gathered in Durban, South Africa. The participants were largely from the Sub-Saharan region, along with a few fellow social movement members from the USA and Spain, as well as a few allies from within and...

ESCR-Net submits amicus in case concerning decades-long struggle to remedy housing rights violation in South Africa

ESCR-Net has intervened as amicus in the Thubakgale case before the High Court in South Africa, a decades-long case litigated by the Socio-Economic Rights Initiative in...

Stop the xenophobic attacks on SERI

ESCR-Net - International Network of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) stands in solidarity with South African member, Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). The threats aimed at SERI are directly linked to recent efforts to support informal traders in the De...

Joint statement: South Africa: Recent killings raise concerns of increased repression against Abahlali baseMjondolo

We the undersigned organizations strongly condemn the recent killings within the span of three days of Human rights defenders Ayanda Ngila in the eKhenana settlement and Siyabonga Manqele in the eNkanini settlement in Cato Manor, in Durban, South Africa. Both were members of the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement, which promotes the rights of shack dwellers in the informal settlements in South Africa.

Global solidarity and outrage at killing of young Abahlali baseMjondolo leader, Ayanda Ngila

In the aftermath of the killing of Ayanda Ngila, ESCR-Net expresses solidarity and condolences with his loved ones and the wider Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa. Ayanda Ngila was tragically shot and killed on 8 March 2022, allegedly by members of the local ANC party.

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South Africa: Stop the attacks on the eKhenana Commune

On 6 December 2021, ESCR-Net sent a collective letter to the South African authorities calling on them to stop the ongoing attacks on the eKhenana Commune in Durban, South Africa.

Throughout 2021, at least ten Abahlali basemjondolo leaders from the eKhenana Commune have been criminalized...

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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