Resources

Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders

The main focus of this report is on the context in which WHRDs work, recognizing that the social, cultural, economic and political environment subtantively influences the the challenges WHRDs face and can exacerbate their vulnerability. Identifying context also enables the experience of WHRDs to...

International Human Rights Violations on the Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

This second updated edition, prepared by the International Commission of Jurists addresses the issue of human rights violations on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. The objective of this document is to compile relevant existing information in order to frame the debate, and...

How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing

This report shows how, for many activists and organizations, advocating for "sexual rights" has become a dangerous proposition. It illustrates how the combined forces which conspire, in society after society, to regulate women’s sexuality, lash out at any attempt to...

Factsheet on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

This factsheet provides a basic overview of the content of economic, social and cultural rights for women.

Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members

Guide: Claiming Women's ESC Rights Using OP-CEDAW and OP-ICESCR

This Resource Guide aims to improve the existing knowledge and understanding of activists and lawyers on international norms and standards, such as substantive equality, to support effective advocacy on women’s economic, social and cultural rights.

Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members

Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms of the United Nations

Since the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, several United Nations mechanisms for enforcing and protecting economic, social, and cultural rights have emerged. One of the most important international mechanisms for defending and promoting ESCR...

Together to stop corporate capture of the treaty process and advocate for a strong binding treaty to regulate corporate power

From 24 - 28 October, a delegation of ESCR-Net members attended the 8th session of the negotiations for a Legally Binding Instrument on business and human rights (OIGWG). Alongside allies, members advocated for an instrument to regulate corporate power, and also against corporate capture of the treaty process and of the UN more generally.

ESCR-Net members, partners & allies after attended the treaty sessions in Geneva from 24 - 28 October to advocate against corporate capture and for a strong binding treaty to regulate corporate power.

Building sustainable peace. Transforming conflict-affected situations for women

Over the past two years, dozens of ESCR-Net members engaged in cross-network discussions to develop the analytical report “Building sustainable peace. Transforming conflict-affected situations for women.” The report argues that in dealing with conflict-affected situations, it is vital to adopt an intersectional feminist approach via a human rights framework, and provides seven lessons and principles to guide the work in the field.

Confronting Corporate Capture to Advance Climate Justice: A Feminist Perspective

On 14 September, 2021, ESCR-Net hosted a roundtable on Confronting Corporate Capture to Advance Climate Justice: A Feminist...

A New Social Pact on Care is Urgent

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Statement: Women’s Global Strike 2021

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, amid the inequalities intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and government responses often captured by corporate interests and political elites, women across the world are demanding economic alternatives that center the integrity of peoples and...

Systemic change, not retrogression

COVID-19 has revealed a longstanding public health crisis, which is one aspect of a wider crisis of the dominant socio-economic model. This model has entailed systemic oppressions, commodification of health and care work, weakening of social protection, and fiscal austerity driven by neoliberal...

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