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Social Movements

The Social Movement Working Group (SMWG) brings together the social movements who make up ESCR-Net from across regions, representing Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Peoples, peasants, feminists, trade unionists, along with other politically organized communities. Together they share hard-won lessons of struggle and resistance, build solidarity, and deepen collective analysis.

The SMWG drafted and then updated the Common Charter, connecting their struggles via analysis of the common global conditions facing their communities, as well as articulating points of unity. Fellow members have affirmed the Charter, informing ESCR-Net’s overall strategy and encouraging new forms of advocacy and campaigning.

Contact: Basma Eid, Director of Campaigns and Membership and Social Movements Program Coordinator

Latest in Social Movements
08/13/2026
Article | News & Events
Across the world, movements are confronting rising militarization, criminalization, forced displacement, and attacks on civic space. This second article in our Political Education Series explores the Political Economy of Violence as a collective framework for understanding why these are not isolated crises, but interconnected expressions of a global system in...