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NESRI report reveals failures of Pennsylvania’s private, for-profit healthcare insurance system

The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), with their partner Put...

Briefing papers on land, work and health launched by Women and ESCR Working Group in Arabic

On August 31, ESCR-Net’s Working Group on Women and ESCR launched a series of briefing papers in Arabic.

The briefing papers present specific and systemic challenges to the realization of women’s ESCR in practice and explore progressive approaches to the application of a

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EIPR raises concern about budget allocations inadequate for minimal expenditures on education and health in Egypt

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights published a paper reporting their analysis of Egypt’s draft public budget for 2016-17....

ISER reports on the realization of economic and social rights in Uganda

ESCR-net member, the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), works to promote the effective understanding, monitoring, implementation and realization of economic and social rights in Uganda. ISER...

Section 27 supports the Johannesburg Declaration on right to health

ESCR-Net member Section 27, along with other civil society organizations around the world, has endorsed the ...

Peoples for Health Movement calls to revoke harmful health indicator

ESCR-Net member Peoples for Health Movement, in parallel with 270 civil society organizations, has released an urgent call to the UN to revoke weak and harmful indicator 3.8.2....

Women and ESCR Working Group launches briefing papers on land, work and health

The Women and ESCR Working Group launched revised briefing papers on Land,...

December 2015 discussion: forging strategic links between human rights indicators and right to information advocacy approaches

Welcome to our December monthly discussion! I’m Alejandra Umpiérrez from the Center for Archives and Access to Public Information (CAinfo), a Uruguay-based civil society organization advocating for the right to information, freedom of expression and citizen...

Brazil authorizes operation of the Belo Monte Dam, disregarding the rights of affected communities

The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) today authorized the Belo Monte Dam's operating license, which allows the dam's reservoirs to be filled. The authorization was granted despite clear noncompliance with conditions necessary...

CAinfo celebrates the International Right to Know Day: a new data-monitoring website on the right to health in Uruguay

On 28 September 2015, in celebrating the International Right to Know Day, the Center for Archives and Access to Public Information (CAinfo) launched a new website to monitor data on the right to health in Uruguay: www.salud.org.uy. Focusing...