Special Features
The Optional Protocol to the ICESCR was Adopted!
The Optional Protocol to the ICESCR was adopted by the Human Rights Council and will now be submitted to the General Assembly for its final adoption.
ESCR-Net's New Video Page - Visit the HUB!
ESCR-Net introduces an exciting project by ESCR-Net member, WITNESS.
S. African Housing Activist Grootboom Eulogized - Western Cape Anti-Eviction Press Statement
On Saturday, August 9, a holiday marking the contribution of women to South Africa's liberation struggle, three members of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign joined close to 500 mourners at the funeral of Irene Grootboom.
Member News
OMCT African Regional Seminar and the Maputo Declaration
African Human Rights NGOs meeting in Maputo to address the economic, social and cultural root causes of torture call on Governments to make Africa a torture-free continent.
Joint HRC Submission on Business & Human Rights 20 May 2008
We want to bring your attention to a Joint Written Submission presented to the Human Rights Council by several NGOs, including ESCR-Net, on ways the Council can advance corporate accountability to human rights in the context of defining a follow-on mandate to the one of the UN Special Representative to the Secretary General on Business and Human Rights, carried out so far by John Ruggie. This submission is the first of a number of advocacy actions ESCR-Net and other organizations will be carrying out at the 8th Session of the HRC in early June. We will keep you informed about these activities.
Joint Declaration addressed to Governments on World Food Crisis
The undersigned social movements and civil society organizations welcome the decision of the UN Human Rights Council, upon request of the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to food, to hold a special session on the negative impact of the world food crisis on the realization of the right to food, which took place on May 22nd in Geneva.