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This advocacy briefing is grounded in the mutual exchange among ESCR-Net members, particularly facilitated through the Working Group on Environment and ESCR. Drawing on years of analysis focused on the realities of climate injustices and the intricate relationship between loss and damage and...

We affirm our solidarity with our members in Palestine and the wider civilian population in the besieged Gaza Strip, who have been enduring carpet-bombing, indiscriminate destruction of their homes and fundamental public services, including schools and hospitals, forced displacement, and denial...

Debt is an unsustainable and illegitimate way of robbing the future of millions of people

Increasingly, countries in the Global South are already in deep debt distress. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and private creditors expect our countries to prioritize debt...

ESCR-Net is thrilled to launch the comic entitled “The Power of the 99% to Stop Corporate Capture and Debt”(available in English, French, Arabic, and Spanish,) a political education tool to spur discussion and deepen understanding of the root causes of debt and its colonial legacies, the role of corporate capture as a driver of the debt crisis, and the intersection with other issues such as the care and climate crises. Ultimately, this comic strives to inspire action to confront corporate capture and the economic models imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and private creditors, which prioritize creditors' profits and corporate interests at the expense of human rights, including the right to a clean and healthy environment.

The decades-long armed conflict in Colombia has resulted in numerous deaths, injuries, and broader trauma and irreversible alteration of the fabric of Colombian society. One of the most affected populations in this conflict has been that of the people who have seen themselves forcibly displaced...

We, the undersigned organizations, are in solidarity with human rights defenders (HRDs) in the Philippines. We support their continuing pursuit for the universality, indivisibility, and interdependence of human rights. We strongly condemn the renewed judicial harassment faced by ten HRDs who...

From 12-16 June, 30 ESCR-Net members from over 15 countries gathered in Buenos Aires, Argentina for our third Systemic Critique workshop entitled, Centering Care, Advancing Debt Justice.  The Systemic Critique Project is a political education initiative within the Network where we are able to create a dedicated space for critical learning and discussions relating to the dominant neoliberal capitalist  economic system, with the aim of advancing alternative visions for the future in order to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.

ESCR-Net - International Network of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) condemns the recent Israeli government attacks on Syrian Arab residents in the occupied Syrian Golan who are resisting the ongoing expansion of a wind-farm development criticized as an example of green-washing the occupation spearheaded by corporate actors. This is all too familiar for many ESCR-Net members who have faced similar struggles in the name of so-called green energy development, including in conflict-affected areas and occupied territory. We express our solidarity with ESCR-Net member Al-Marsad Arab Human Rights Center in Golan-Heights and the wider Syrian community in occupied Syrian Golan who continue to resist in the face of violent dispossession. 

The urgency of the climate crisis is reaching courts all around the world, including international tribunals, and ESCR-Net members are deeply engaged.

Climate litigation is pending or soon expected in all three regional human rights systems, in addition to the International Court of...