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Women’s Land and Property Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

The paper provided detailed information on the current state of women’s rights to access,...

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Using CEDAW to Secure Women’s Land and Property Rights: A Practical Guide

The purpose of Using CEDAW to Secure Women’s Land and Property Rights: A Practical Guide is to provide advocacy information, advice and tools to those wishing...

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Briefing Note on Infrastructure, Energy and Extractives

This briefing note discusses the human rights implications of current models of financing for extractive...

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Moving towards a Right to Land: The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Treatment of Land Rights as Human Rights - Minority Rights

Moving towards a Right to Land: The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Treatment of Land Rights as Human Rights - Minority Rights ...

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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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