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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

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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...

Member-led webinar on Climate Justice & ESCR - March 2020

ESCR-Net hosted a member-led webinar on Climate Justice & ESCR: Considering Frameworks; Challenging Systems in March 2020.

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Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members

AWID

Statement: "Unchecked corporate porwer paved the way for COVID-19 and globally, women are at the frontline"
17 March 2020

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Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Amnesty International

Statement: "Digital surveillance to fight COVID-19 can only be justified if it respects human rights"

2 April 2020

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Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

Franciscans International

Statement: "Statement on the human rights impact of the COVID-19 pandemic"

Geneva - New York, 7 April 2020

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Developed by an ESCR-Net Member

The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy) v. Stichting Urgenda

Supreme Court of the Netherlands Orders State to Reduce Greenhouse Gases by at Least 25% by 2020, Compared to 1990 Levels

The claimant in this case is the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the State of the Netherlands (the State), who appealed in cassation from the Court of Appeal’s ruling in favor of Stichting Urgenda (Urgenda), an organization working to combat climate change.

Kairos

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Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19

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