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Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj contributes to a report on criminalization in Guatemala

The Consejo del Pueblo Maya (CPO), a council to which the Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj belongs, has released a report on the criminalization of Mayan communities that are exercising the right...

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Liberia: Cease governmental surveillance and harassment against human rights advocates defending land and natural resource rights

The following petition has been initiated by ESCR-Net member Green Advocates who invites any member of ESCR-Net or the public to add their signature in support. November 3, 2016 To: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia Your Excellency: We write to express our deep concern regarding an...
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FESPAD supports litigation against a Canadian mining company, and El Salvador wins

On 14 October 2016, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruled in favour of the Government of El Salvador regarding a complaint filed by the Canadian mining company Pacific Rim/...

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Fisherfolk social movements: exchange against land and ocean grabbing

The World Forum of Fisher Peoples convened an exchange in Sri Lanka to study the human rights impacts of land and ocean grabbing and to conceptualize a campaign to defend the...

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Webinar on Infrastructure, Energy and Extractives

On October 5th, ESCR-Net's Working Group on Economic Policy and Human Rights held a Webinar on Infrastructure, Energy and Extractives, with opening presentations by Aldo Caliari (

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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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Bretton Woods Project addresses inconsistency in application of Indigenous Peoples Policy by World Bank in Kenya

ESCR-Net member Bretton Woods Project published an article in the Bretton Woods Observer called Lessons from Kenya: Why the World Bank must apply the...

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Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj celebrate the release of indigenous leaders

Following months of mass mobilizations and international solidarity, the Consejo de Pueblos Wuxhtaj (Council of Wuxhtaj Peoples) of Guatemala can finally celebrate...

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Colombia: protection for environmental and human rights defenders

On July 14, the International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) sent a letter to the government of Colombia to express concern...

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IFC Loan Leads to Forced Labor in Uzbekistan Cotton Industry

The government of Uzbekistan has partnered with Indorama Kokand Textile, a cotton processing corporation, to export cotton that stems from coercion of local fammers, as well as land and property seizures without compensation. The income of the sales from the cotton under Indorama are then...

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