1. Women & ESCR

Events for Women & ESCR

06
Aug
2020

Call of the Women and ESCR Steering Committee

Upcoming call of the Steering Committee

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31
Jul
2020

Call for proposals on Community-led documentation for social movements

Call for proposals on Community-led documentation for social movements and grassroots groups, in struggles for land, housing and natural resources. Read more.

 

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31
Jul
2020

Call for case studies on intersectionality and centrality of social movements in strategic litigation on land, housing and natural resources

Call for case studies on intersectionality and centrality of social movements in strategic litigation on land, housing and natural resources. 

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12
Mar
2018

Rural women leaders advancing human rights and shaping standards: evolving openings

Rural women leaders offer feminist perspectives on collective advocacy and connect their experiences to structural issues at the root of human rights abuses. 

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08
Sep
2017

Workshop on Security & Wellbeing for (Women) Human Rights Defenders

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07
Sep
2017

Considering Women’s Rights in relation to Housing, Land and Natural Resources

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27
Apr
2017

Indigenous Women’s Resistance for Global Justice is Global

Panel Event and Reception: Indigenous Women’s Resistance for Global Justice is Global, April 27: 6:00pm – 7:40 with reception to follow

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24
Apr
2017

Our Way Forward: A Movement Dialogue to Defend and Advance Our Rights

“Our Way Forward: A Movement Dialogue to Defend and Advance Our Rights,” April 24: 1:15-2:30pm

* Please see here flyer for RSVP information.

Speakers:

  • Yasso
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22
Mar
2017

Confronting crises with Solidarity: Escalating Global Strikes

Speakers:

• Nazma Akter, Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation

• Daisy Arago, Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (

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22
Mar
2017

Changing Climate/Changing Work: Women Leaders on Economic Empowerment & the Human Right to Water

On World Water Day - March 22, 2017 -  we are bringing together an incredible group of women of Color leaders based in the US, US-occupied territories, and Tunisia for an official side event at the 61st United Nations Commission the Status of Women (CSW). Panelists...

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22
Mar
2017

Barriers to the realization of Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the realm of work

The ESCR-Net Women and ESCR Working Group, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, is pleased to bring together women’s rights advocates from different regions of the world to discuss women’s economic, social and cultural rights in...

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20
Mar
2017

Redefining the Value of Women’s Work

Women’s work has always been characterized as precarious, casual, informal, low-skilled, unskilled, unpaid, unrecognized, unvalued, undervalued and invisible. In a changing world that is dominated by neoliberalism and patriarchy, this characterization continues to...

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