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May 13, 2009: ESCR-Net Members Submissions to the The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights

The following Members submitted presentations on business and human rights to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights : ActionAid, Amnesty UK, EarthRights International, Rights & Accountability in Development.

ESCR-Net Newsletter - July 2009

May 06, 2009: OMCT and two Filipino NGOs call on the Committee Against Torture to help end torture and ill-treatment in the Philippines

OMCT and two Filipino NGOs call on the Committee Against Torture to help end torture and ill-treatment in the Philippines by addressing their economic, social and cultural root causes.

March 28, 2009: The United Nations Creates a New Mandate of Independent Expert for Cultural Rights

The UN Human Rights Council Creats a New Mandate of Independant Expert in the Field of Cultural Rights

March 25, 2009: Manila Declaration

View the Manila Declaration that resulted from the March 2009 International Conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Extractive Industries.

International Expert Workshop on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Corporate Accountability and the Extractive Industries

The Permanent Forum decides to autorize a three-day international expert group workshop on indigenous peoples' rights, corporate accountability and the extractive industries, and request that the result of the result of the meeting be reported to the Forum at its eight session, in 2009.

March, 2009: International Year of Human Rights Learning

Shulamith Koenig from People's Movement for Human Rights Learning (PDHRE), an ESCR-Net Oganizational Member, shared the following thoughts regarding a recent United Nations GA. March 2009

Right to Education Project

The Right to education project launches new website to promote social mobilisation and legal accountability.

Dec. 10, 2008: New Animation Promotes Justice for Violation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Watch the exciting new video from our friends, Amnesty International.

October 22, 2008: CALS Wins Third Place in International Business Ethics Network Awards

The Wits Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) has won third prize in a global award offered by the US-based Business Ethics Network (BEN), for the Phiri water rights campaign.

Oct. 08, 2008: Royal Dutch Shell to go to Trial for Complicity in Torture and Murder of Nigerian Protesters

Yesterday, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York set a trial date of February 9, 2009 for a human rights and racketeering case against the Royal Dutch Shell company (Shell) and the head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson.

Sept. 16, 2008: New ICJ Publication: Corporate Complicity in International Crimes

The ICJ made public the final report of the Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes it set up in 2006 to explore when companies and their officials could be held legally responsible under criminal and/or civil law when they are involved with other actors in gross human rights abuses.