The Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) elected its first Steering Committee. The election process was carried out to ensure that the Steering Committee would be formed in alignment with the ESCR-Net core principles of regional balance and the centrality of social...
On the occasion of International Women's Day (March 8), ESCR-Net members and allies, including members of the Women and ESCR Working Group, took action to promote and defend women's rights, including engaging in the International Women’s Strike to...
ESCR-Net’s Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) held two parallel sessions and a strategy meeting on advancing women’s rights related to work during CSW 61 (United Nations Commission on the...
Several Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) members participated in and led sessions at the 2016 13th AWID International Forum, “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice,” from September 8-11 2016 in Bahia, Brazil. These included:...
On August 10-12, 2016, the Endorois Welfare Council (EWC), with the support of ESCR-Net, organized its first women’s workshop, bringing to Nakuru (Kenya) 25 women from the 16 locations where the Endorois live today.
The Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) of the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) engaged in a consultation with the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms...
From 26 to 28 August, 2015, the Women and ESCR Working Group held an international strategy meeting to promote women's ESCR in Montevideo, Uruguay. The meeting – “Advancing Women’s ESCR: Alternative Visions of Development, Land and Property Rights”...
