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Gender issues at the New Development Bank

The Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR), recently published a report on BRICS, an acronym for a political/...

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Luke Gannon by his next friends and guardians, et al., v. State of Kansas, 298 Kan. 1107, 319 P.3d 1196 (2014) [Gannon I]; 303 Kan. 682, 368 P.3d 1024 (2016) [Gannon II], --- Kan. ---, --- P.3d --- (2016) 2016 Kan. LEXIS 300 [Gannon III]

Kansas Supreme Court decides school funding should be equitable and adequate

In 2010, four Kansas school districts, 31 students, and their guardians sued the State of Kansas alleging that cuts in public school budgets beginning in 2009 had left schools inadequately funded and that portions of the funding were inequitably distributed, in violation of Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution (regulating education provision), state statutes, and due process and equal protection clauses of the Kansas and United States Constitutions.

Oil Exploration and Production in Malawi

Citizens for Justice (CFJ) published this ...

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ActionAid report on how taxes affect gender equality

ActionAid’s new briefing Making tax work for women’s...

Making Tax Work for Women's Rights

Making Tax Work for Women's Rights draws on ActionAid’s work on women’s rights and tax justice. They find that g...

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Comparative Study: Tax Systems in Six Arab Countries

This study is based on a two-year research project carried out by the ANND in Collaboration with several national organizations and institutions. The report includes...

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Webinar on Privatization & Public-Private Partnerships

On Wednesday, September 28, ESCR-Net's Working Group on Economic Policy and Human Rights held a Webinar on Privatization & Public-Private Partnerships, with opening presentations by Tessa Khan (Climate...

Webinar on Trade & Investment

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...

EIPR raises concern about budget allocations inadequate for minimal expenditures on education and health in Egypt

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights published a paper reporting their analysis of Egypt’s draft public budget for 2016-17....

Attorney General and Others v. Tapela and Others, Court of Appeal Civil Case No. CACGB-096-14; Attorney General and Others v. Mwale, Court of Appeal Civil Case No. CACGB-076-15

In 2004 Botswana’s Secretary of Health circulated an internal directive to public medical facilities informing them of a Presidential Directive authorizing “provision of free treatment to non-citizen prisoners suffering from ailments other than AIDS.” HIV-positive Zimbabwean prisoners filed lawsuits challenging this directive after being denied free Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ARV).