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Building Collective Power to Shape Our Futures: Highlights from our 2024 Global Strategy Meeting

ESCR-Net

International Network for Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights

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We unite 300 social movements, human rights organizations, and advocates across 80 countries, collaborating toward the world we need: a world where care for people and the planet, solidarity, and equality inform decisions and shape structures to guarantee human rights for all.

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At the heart of our collective efforts lie the lived experiences, analysis, and leadership of those most impacted by and resisting inequality, impoverishment, injustice, and environmental destruction. For over twenty years, the Network has facilitated spaces for members to build solidarity and connect their struggles across regions to tackle deep-rooted challenges that erode human rights, mobilizing collective action to transform unjust economic and political structures.

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11/15/2024
Article | Statements
Statement in Solidarity with Abahlali baseMjondolo Against State Violence and Racism
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11/12/2024
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COP29 Press Conference Highlights: Loss and Damage as a Human Rights Obligation
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11/12/2024
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False Solutions COP? Carbon Market and Removals Dominate a Controversial Opening of COP29
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11/08/2024
Resource | Advocacy | Reports & Briefings
ESCR-Net COP29 Briefing Note: Priorities for a Peoples-Centered, Rights-Based Climate Agenda
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11/06/2024
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Urgent Call to End Violent Evictions and Racist Attacks on Poor Communities
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1.Access To Justice
Access to Justice
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Centering Community Knowledge
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Climate and Environmental Justice
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Confronting Dispossession
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Confronting Violence and Repression
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Economic Justice
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Feminisms and Gender Justice
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Post-Pandemic Futures
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Stopping Corporate Capture and Corporate Impunity
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Members

Our strength comes from our members: social movements, Indigenous Peoples, human rights organizations, feminist and women’s organizations, independent unions, and advocates from around the world. Members build shared analysis, define strategies and undertake collective action foremost through working groups, which annually evaluate their progress, revise objectives, and prioritize collective actions.

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System of Solidarity

The System of Solidarity (SOS) is a vehicle to harness the collective voice of ESCR-Net to increase protection for human rights defenders under threat and prevent imminent human rights violations from taking place.  We achieve this through online petitions, collective letters, strategic communications, and sharing resources and tools.

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What are Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) are essential for the dignity and well-being of individuals and communities. ESCR encompass basic human entitlements such as access to education, healthcare, housing, fair wages and equal pay, and the right to self-determination. Around the world, people share the struggle to make these human rights a reality for themselves, their families, communities, and ancestral lands.

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