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Ensuring the right to life for all by recognizing its ESCR content

On July 14, 2015, the Human Rights Committee will hold a general discussion aimed at developing a General Comment on Article 6, expanding upon its earlier General Comments No. 6 and 14 (from...

ISER advocates inclusion of ESCR in Uganda’s Constitution with support of ESCR-Net Members

The current Constitution of Uganda has a mixed system where a few ESCRs are included in the Bill of Rights under Chapter 4 of the Constitution, while the majority of ESCRs are under the National Objectives and Directive Principles of State...

Families request Marikana Report be released soon

SERI and the LRC, who represent the families of the 37 mineworkers killed at Marikana on August 2012, issued a press statement regarding the publication of the Marikana Commission report

Advancing Tax Justice Through Human Rights

International meeting organized by CESR on Tax Policy promotes the progressive realization of ESCR

New publication: The African Regional Human Rights System

PWESCR released a new publication on the origins of the African regional human rights mechanisms

Canada’s extra-territorial human rights obligations to be scrutinized under both human rights Covenants

The Global Initiative for ESCR successfully intervened with a Parallel Report laying out the extra-territorial obligations under the ICCPR

Recognition of the human rights to water and sanitation by UN Member States at the international level

Amnesty and WASH United released a publication that gathers the evidence of the universal recognition of the human rights to water and sanitation

Insufficient measures related to access to health for undocumented migrants in Spain

Members and allies, in collaboration with the Strategic Litigation Working Group, assess the decision of the Spanish Government to restore undocument migrants' access to health services

Brazil: Civil Society presents thematic proposals to the Commission on Human Rights

Plataforma Dhesca and civil society organizations presented their priorities on Human Rights

SERI argues successful case to hold public officials accountable for implementation

South African Supreme Court advances enforcement of right to decent housing

First regional hearing of the IACHR about ESCR of people living in urban shantytowns in the Americas

HIC-Al, ACIJ and CELS, among others, achieved a regional hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Prior Consultation Information Center

Dejusticia and Racial Discrimination Watch launch a platform for actors interested in advancing the right to prior consultation