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Human rights advocates eye legal action against Canadian, German, Norwegian and UK governments over global COVID vaccine inequality

Human rights lawyers have threatened legal action against the German, Norwegian, and Canadian governments today for obstructing global efforts to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines and other healthcare technologies.

The move comes as state delegates from around the...

Press Advisory: Online Global Rally - WTO: TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines Now!

ESCR-Net, Movement Law Lab, and The People’s Vaccine Alliance and Médecins sans frontières /Doctors Without Borders co-sponsor the Online Global Rally to put pressure on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and States who refuse to pass a meaningful vaccine waiver on life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and therapies.

Rally vaccines Nov 23

Ecuador - Discrimination and Right to Health Violations Found in the Case Person with Psychosocial Disability

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a judgment in Guachalá Chimbó and Others vs. Ecuador, finding intersectional discrimination based on disability and class and violations of the right to...

Organizations Urge the Creation of Community-Based Mental Health Care Model that Ensures the Rights of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities

This past December, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ), Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Comisión Colombiana de Juristas (CCJ),...

Egyptian prisons must respect women’s bodily and health needs

The Egyptian Initiative or Personal Rights (EIPR), launched a campaign calling on the Egyptian prison authorities to provide, free of charge, sanitary pads to female...

Webinar on Using technical evidence for strategic ESCR litigation

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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, ...

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network publishes recommendations for harm reduction

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, together with Harm Reduction International, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, and the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs, has published a...

Mining projects in Colombia rejected by popular vote initiated by social movements

On 27 March, 2017, the residents of the Cajamarca region of Colombia, decided by a democratic popular referendum to reject a mining project that threatens an environmentally protected rural area...

Reporting on protests linked to economic and social issues in Tunisia

ESCR-Net member Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) published its monthly reports on social...