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CRR publishes new report highlighting the importance for adolescents to exercise their reproductive rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) recently published a report, ...

Empowering adolescents to use their reproductive rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) published a briefing paper on the barriers adolescents face in realizing their sexual and reproductive health...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Shadow Report on the Implementation of CEDAW

The Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women of Republic of Macedonia (ESE) and Akcija Zdruzenska jointly authored a Shadow Report on...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Global killings of land and environmental defenders in 2016

Global Witness, the author of the report, Defenders of the Earth, showcases their research on the 200 land and environmental defenders’ deaths in 2016. The increasing suppression of environmental and land rights activism in many countries is spreading, and their right...

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2017: Reclaiming policies for the public

This shadow report counters the official discussions at the UN headquarters, providing its own comprehensive and independent assessment of the implementation of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), based on experiences and reports by national and regional...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Mexico’s new infrastructure investment vehicles: the case of the Cerro de Oro hydroelectric project

This article analyzes global trends in financing for infrastructure. It looks at changes in Mexico’s laws, policies, and programs and how it has effected their infrastructure investment models and the use of public pension funds. Furthermore, it examines how this model is...

Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Obstructing Progress: Growing Talibanisation & Poor Governance in Pakistan, Shadow Report

This shadow report, "Obstructing Progress: Growing Talibanisation & Poor Governance in Pakistan" addresses insecurity, violence against women, marriage and minority women, and health. Authored by the Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Centre and submitted to the UN Committee on the Convention on...

NGO Shadow Report Complementing the 7th and 8th Country Report of the Austrian Government to the CEDAW Committee

This shadow report on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is a joint initiative of Austrian NGOs and individual experts complementing the Seventh and Eighth Periodic Austrian Country Report to the CEDAW Committee. The...

Right to Health for All

Just Fair and Doctors of the World UK collaborated to launch a ...

Should African States ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights?

Should African States ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights? A guide to the complementarity between the human rights systems at the African regional level and the international level.

The guide is available...

Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members