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Opportunity: Advanced Training on Monitoring ESCR (Geneva, May 5-9, 2014)

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 (...

Monitoring Methodologies for ESCR

Monitoring Methodologies

Through the Monitoring Methodologies Working Group, practitioners can more systematically exchange experiences of using various methods to assess states’ action (and inaction) from the perspective of their ESCR...

Opportunity: Advanced Training on Monitoring ESCR (Geneva, May 6-10, 2013)

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...

CWGL's new brief, "how to apply a human rights framework to macroeconomic strategies"

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

Judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court in the proceeding 1 BvL 10/10

The Higher Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia asked the German Federal Constitutional Court to decide whether the cash benefits for asylum seekers provided under section 3 paragraph 2 of the Asylum Seekers Benefit Act comply with the constitutional right to a minimum standard of living.

Dorothy Ann Finch and others v. Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority

Petitioners challenged the 2009 decision of the State of Massachusetts to exclude a group of legal immigrants from its Commonwealth Care Health Insurance Program. Plaintiffs alleged that such exclusion violated the Equal Protection Clause recognized by the Constitution of Massachusetts.

National Fisheries Solidarity Organization (NAFSO)

Country:

Sri Lanka

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Women & ESCR

Corporate Accountability

Social Movements & Grassroots Groups

Economic Policy

OP-ICESCR

Economic and Social Rights Academic Network UK and Ireland (ESRAN-UKI)

Country:

United Kingdom

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

OP-ICESCR

Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA)

Country:

Zimbabwe

Working Group(s) / Area(s) of Work:

Economic Policy

OP-ICESCR

Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil (Communication No. 17/2008)

Alyne Pimentel, an Afro-Brazilian woman, died at 28 years old of complications resulting from her pregnancy, after a health center in Rio de Janeiro failed to provide for appropriate and timely access to emergency obstetric care. Pimentel's death could have been prevented, if the health center had correctly diagnosed and treated her for intrauterine fetal death. Pimentel's death is not an isolated case.