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Practitioners Guide: Human Rights-Based Approach to Water in Informal Settlements

This GI-ESCR Practitioners Guide on the Human Rights-Based Approach to Water in Informal Settlements is aimed...

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Myanmar town attempts to stop operations by military-owned acid factory by revoking license to operate

When the local village refused to renew the license for the military-owned sulphuric acid company due to health and environmental concerns, the factory ceased operations for one month. However, after that month, the factory resumed operations by regaining a license...

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...

ESCR-Net calls on the government of Kenya to cease further forced evictions of the Ogiek communities

The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) sent a letter today to the President of Kenya, Uhuru...

Otros Mundos participates in a coalition in defense of water in Mexico

ESCR-Net member Otros Mundos AC has joined with 10 other social organizations from Chiapas to denounce the form of natural resource management - particularly related to water - promoted...

Habi Center submits proclamation to Attorney General regarding Nile river pollution and fish death

ESCR-Net member, Habi Center for Environmental Rights, submitted a proclamation to the Attorney General in Egypt under number 1394 accusing the government of negligence in taking the necessary procedures to...

Post-2015 WASH Targets and Indicators: A Review from a Human Rights Perspective (2013)

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WaterLex Legal Database (online)

Summary: A brand-new version of the WaterLex Legal Database on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation has been released online. It now features an...

Nokotyana and others v. Ekurhuleni Municipality 2010 (4) BCLR 312 (CC)

The applicants, occupiers of the Harry Gwala informal settlement, argued for the provision of certain interim basic services in their settlement, pending a decision on whether the settlement was to be upgraded on site or relocated to formal housing (whereupon such services would be provided permanently). They relied primarily on sections 26 and 27 of the Constitution and chapters 12 (emergency housing situations) and 13 (upgrading of informal settlements) of the National Housing Code.

ESCR-Net Director publishes article analyzing the ongoing struggle for the right to water in Detroit

ESCR-Net Members have supported the ongoing struggle of Detroit communities to resist the denial of water and sanitation to over 30,000 households. In conversation with the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO), the Strategic Litigation Working Group submitted an...