Member News

New animation on the state of AWID's feminist movements

The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) has developed an animated video based...

Advocates gather to discuss women’s land and property rights in Africa

On 17 March, 2017 Women and ESCR Working Group (WESCR WG) member Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR)...

ActionAid report on how taxes affect gender equality

ActionAid’s new briefing Making tax work for women’s...

Zi Teng issues statement on 14th International Day to end violence against sex workers

Women and ESCR Working Group member Zi Teng, a “sex workers concern group...

Just Associates launches campaign on women human rights defenders

In September, Just Associates (JASS) - together with the Global Fund for Women and MADRE - launched the campaign...

IWRAW-AP publishes videos emphasizing importance of including women’s rights in natural resource governance

IWRAW-AP, an ESCR-Net member, recently published two videos on the topic of ...

FIAN International publishes analytical note on recently adopted CEDAW General Recommendation on Rural Women

ESCR-Net member FIAN International recently published an analysis of General Recommendation No. 34 on the rights of rural women, which was...

EQUIS publishes a manual on reviews for compliance

Timed to coincide with International Women's Day, EQUIS Justicia Para las Mujeres - an ESCR-Net member from Mexico - recently launched a new campaign advocating...

CHRI Report on Women in police in Bangladesh

ESCR-net member Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative...

ESCR-Net members input into CEDAW's General Recommendation on the rights of rural women

ESCR-Net congratulates the members and allies who have advocated for and offered inputs into the General Recommendation No. 34 on the rights of rural women, which was recently published by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

Hong Kong: Zi Teng defends the rights of sex workers

On the 13th International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers,...

Latin American and the Caribbean Forum on domestic work: united for a decent work

The forum took place in Medellin, Colombia, last October 27th and 28th and it is maybe an unprecedented event of this kind, since it brought together to representatives of domestic workers of 10 Latin American and the Caribbean countries in order to know...