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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.

Women Lead the Way: Monitoring and improving government services and facilities in Delhi

Nazdeek has partnered with communities in Delhi to develop effective and accessible strategies for monitoring essential services that they are legally entitled to, seek redressal of individual right violations, and, at a collective level, advocate for systemic improvements in the delivery of...

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How Can Evidence Bolster Citizen Action? Learning and Adapting for Accountable Public Health in Guatemala

The report How Can Evidence Bolster Citizen Action? Learning and Adapting for Accountable Public Health in Guatemala...

List of Issues related to the Second Periodic Report of the People’s Republic of China submitted to CESCR

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) submitted information to the pre-sessional working group of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). This submission was for consideration as a list of issues related to the second periodic report of...

China AIDS, Public Health and Human Rights Issue List

Beijing Aizhixing Institute, in March 2013, made a submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). The document, China AIDS, Public Health and Human Rights Issue List, primarily addresses the right to health.

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Report On The Situation Of Infant And Young Child Feeding In Egypt

The International Baby Food Action Network, in March 2013, submitted a Report On The Situation Of Infant And Young Child Feeding In Egypt. The submission was made to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). Among its main concerns are maternity protection...

Pre-sessional meeting on Egypt during the forthcoming 51st session of CESCR

Amnesty International, ahead of the pre-sessional meeting on Egypt during the 51st session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), submitted an update of recent...

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Alternative report to the UN CESCR regarding Norway’s 6th Periodic report under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Food First Information and Action Network Norway, International Commission of Jurists Norway,...

Alternative Report submitted to UN CESCR for the consideration of the 2nd Report of the People’s Republic of China

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation authored and submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) for the consideration of the second report of the People’s Republic of China during the 51st Pre‐Sessional...

CRR publishes new report highlighting the importance for adolescents to exercise their reproductive rights

The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) recently published a report, ...