The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has joined WASH United and twenty-one other organization to urgently call on States to renew previous commitments to the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation in the outcome document of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. We are deeply concerned that the […]
ESCR-Net is pleased to announce the publication of “Seeding Hope? Land in the International Human Rights Agenda: Challenges and Prospects,” developed together with the International Council on Human Rights Policy. This paper was developed in response to a mandate that grew out of a gathering of ESCR-Net’s Social Movements Working Group in Brazil in 2010, […]
ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa recently published an article on Gender dimensions of the right to adequate housing from an international perspective by Mayra Gomez and Bret Thiele, Co-Executive Directors of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The article examines how women’s housing and land rights are crucial […]
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) together with Rights Action and the International Human Rights Clinic at Western New England University School of Law has filed a Petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in an attempt to hold the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) accountable for human […]
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), along with its Bulgarian partner Equal Opportunities Association (EOA), represent the Dobri Jeliazkov community in Sofia, Bulgaria in their struggle to prevent the forced eviction of their community. The Dobri Jeliazkov community consists of impoverished Roma and has been in existence for over 70 years. […]
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights participated at the InterAction Forum 2012. The annual InterAction Forum is one of the largest gatherings of international development and humanitarian professionals in the United States. The Global Initiative - ESCR provided a perspective from the human rights community on a panel entitled Rights-Based Approaches in […]
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