Press release 22 December 2014 (Kampala) In a list of issues released on Friday 5 December, the United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) formally asked the Ugandan Government to explain the impact of privatization in education “on the right to education of girls and children living in poverty”. The Committee further […]
FIDH Press Release: Athens, Paris, 18 December 2014 – Austerity measures adopted in response to the economic crisis have adversely impacted human rights, such as the rights to work and health, and curtailed fundamental freedoms in Greece, denounce FIDH and its member organisation the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) in a report released today. […]
The Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), is set to scrutinize Canada regarding its extra-territorial human rights obligations under the Covenant. Canada will appear before the Committee in July 2015 for its periodic review. The Committee has made clear that the ICCPR includes extra-territorial obligations […]
Practitioners’ Guide on Extra-Territorial Obligations (ETOs) in the context of Corporate Human Rights Violations The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) Corporate Accountability Working Group (CAWG) has published a new resource entitled “Global Economy, Global Rights – A Practitioners’ Guide for interpreting human rights obligations in the global economy” to support the interpretation and […]
Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Our top five ESC rights priorities for the High Commissioner for Human Rights Having been in office for three months now, the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Zeid Al-Hussein, will be well advanced in identifying his priorities for his term as High Commissioner. So we […]
Republished from Open Society Foundations December 4, 2014 by Mayra Gomez Women’s land and property rights have implications that go well beyond housing and tilled earth. Next year the world will reach a historic moment. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), development targets adopted by the international community in 2000, are set to expire. In their […]
El sistema educativo más segregado en el mundo: informe desafía las consecuencias de la privatización de la educación en Chile, junto a la ONU (Santiago de Chile, Ginebra) En un informe que se hace público en el día de hoy, el Foro por el Derecho a la Educación de Chile (FORO), la Campaña Latinoamericana por […]
The most segregated education system in the world: new report challenges the consequences of privatisation of education in Chile with the UN Press release (Santiago de Chile, Geneva) In a report made public today, the Chilean Forum for the Right to Education (FORO), the Latin-American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE), the Global Initiative […]
Address to UN Forum on Business and Human Rights related to recent article published by International Service for Human Rights: http://www.ishr.ch/news/fertile-ground-corporate-accountability-advocates-crc-general-comment-business-and-childrens Fertile ground for corporate accountability advocates: CRC General Comment on business and children’s rights By Lucy McKernan, Global Initiative on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights In the build up to the third […]
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