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On Thursday, September 22, ESCR-Net's Working Group on Economic Policy and Human Rights held the first Webinar on Trade and Investment, with opening presentations by Tessa Khan (Climate Litigation Network), Zahra Bazzi (Arab NGO Network for...

Several ESCR-Net members, including ACIJ, CELS, CESR, Dejusticia and Fundar, participated in the thematic hearing on fiscal policy and human rights at the 156th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), held in Washington DC on 22 October 2015...

International meeting organized by CESR on Tax Policy promotes the progressive realization of ESCR

Organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (joint center of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva), this...

The Advanced Training on Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 5-9 May 2014. The training is organized by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (...

An Advanced Training on Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 6-10 May 2013. The training is organized by Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian...

The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) has just published its Nexus Brief #3, which provides an introductory...

ESCR-Net member NESRI and the Vermont's Worker's Center discuss the the People's Budget Campaign, which seeks to minimize and change the effect of budget cuts on working families in Vermont. Here, two videos highlight this recent work and the universality of the healthcare reform in Vermont along with the need to put people at the center of such campaigns in order to change laws.  Making Human Rights and the needs of the communities a top priority will help shape upcoming laws to benefit workers and their families and to ensure that Vermont's revenue policies focuses on people's basic rights.