Environment & climate

Primary tabs

Amicus reaffirms States’ human rights obligations to adequately and effectively address the climate crisis

On May 6^th, several human rights organizations submitted a joint third-party intervention in Duarte Agostinho and others v. Portugal and others, the first climate change case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The intervenors drew on international, regional...

Opinion: A Prelude to the 2020 Finance in Common Summit

beige_and_gray_minimalist_quote_instagram_post.png

...

ESCR-Net members calls on the IMF to stop promoting austerity measures during the recovery process

ESCR-Net members, including Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), Global Initiative for Economic, Social and...

Opinion: On the Intersecting Crises of COVID-19 & Climate: Let us shape a new socio-economic order

Following discussions within ESCR-Net’s membership on climate and environmental justice and human rights in relation to the COVID-19 crisis, multiple members co-authored short articles in this context, including the following piece which was originally published on...

Kairos

TO: President Trump, Vice President Pence and Members of the 116th Congress
Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19

>> ...

Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)

Economic, Social And Cultural Rights In Changing Times - call for submissions

>> https://www.gi-escr.org/escr-in-changing-times