Members and partners consider environmental human rights litigation
The Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), the Open Society Forum, and the Strategic Litigation Working Group co-organized a workshop entitled Enforcing Environmental Rights.
Promoting a human rights-based based approach to data on development
The Monitoring Working Group calls for a human rights-based approach to data during the High Level Political Forum for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Collective call for the protection of human rights defenders in Colombia
ESCR-Net sent a collective letter to the President of Colombia regarding threats directed against Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida and allied organizations.
Members of the Corporate Accountability Working Group will meet in Geneva mid-October to continue advocating for a strong UN treaty to prevent and remedy human rights violations by transnational corporations and other companies.
Coordinated by the Women and ESCR Working Group, members will attend a Day of General Discussion about land and ESCR in Geneva on 14 October to support a forthcoming General Comment from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The Strategic Litigation Working Group is preparing for a strategy meeting this coming November, co-hosted with the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) in Kampala, Uganda to critically evaluate current projects and decide the direction and content of future work.
The Corporate Accountability Working Group will hold a strategy meeting this coming November, co-hosted with Al-Haq in Ramallah, Palestine to discuss strategies and develop shared analysis about corporate capture and to deepen collaboration with other members relating to documentation and campaigning.
ESCR-Net members are supporting the organization of the Peoples’ Summit on Climate, Rights and Human Survival, which will take place in New York on 18-19 September.
ESCR-Net — International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
