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Several members call on advocacy action to the government of Tanzania to stop threatening rights groups

Eighteen national and international non-governmental organizations, including ESCR- Net Members, Amnesty International, ...

Several ESCR-Net members call on investors to cease support for Bridge International Academies

Several ESCR-Net Members with the coordination of Initiative for Economic and Social Rights (ISER) and ...

FUNDEPS advocates for female quotas in Argentina

The Fundación para el Desarollo de Políticas Sustentables (FUNDEPS) proposes quotas as a way to ensure that males to not have a majority in...

Ekta Parishad proposes new campaign for poor people: Jai Jagat 2020

Ekta Parishad is preparing to launch a new campaign for poor and marginalized people called Jai Jagat 2020. “Jagat,” in Hindi, means “all people in the world”....

BLAST signs an agreement with the Royal Danish Embassy to reduce poverty and discrimination

On 14 June 2017, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and the Royal Danish Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, signed an agreement to secure justice...

Torture and illegal detention of law student reaffirms need for anti-torture law in India

On 9 June 2017, a law student, Stalin, was detained in India for 18 hours under suspicion of being part of a smuggling network. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission...

Members mobilize for human rights in response to the Trump administration

The United States government threatened to systematically undermine the human rights of communities in the US, and around the world, during the first week following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. In the days immediately following Trump’s election, the...

Minority Rights Group International reports on threat to religious minorities in Bangladesh

Under threat: the challenges facing religious minorities in Bangladesh, a new report by...

International meeting in Uruguay to advance Women's ESCR related to land and resources

From 26 to 28 August, 2015, the Women and ESCR Working Group held an international strategy meeting to promote women's ESCR in Montevideo, Uruguay. The meeting – “Advancing Women’s ESCR: Alternative Visions of Development, Land and Property Rights”...

Spain’s austerity measures criticized in UN human rights review

A newly-published CESR factsheet illustrates the role Spain’s fiscal austerity policies have played in driving poverty and inequality in the country