ESCR Resources
First published in 2008, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is an annual publication that monitors key policies, processes and issues related to the right to adequate food and nutrition at the global, regional, national and local level. In so doing, it gives visibility to peoples’ struggles and...
Published: Sep 27 2017 - 1:44pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The UK is a profoundly unequal society. This distribution of income is more unequal than the average in both the EU and the Euro area (source: Eurostat; data from 2015). The UK’s Gini coefficient is 32.4, where 0 means absolute equality and 100 means that all income is concentrated in the hands of...
Published: Sep 26 2017 - 11:20am
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
La série de documents informatifs du Groupe de travail sur les femmes et les DESC du Réseau-DESC est axée sur l'intersection entre les femmes et des questions spécifiques relatives aux droits économiques, sociaux et culturels (DESC). Les documents présentent des défis spécifiques et systémiques...
Published: Sep 8 2017 - 3:13pm
Developed thanks to the collective work of ESCR-Net Members
Conflict and crises have dire consequences on women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights. Ensuring the provision of sexual and reproductive health information and services is central to an effective humanitarian response and to fulfilling fundamental human rights and humanitarian...
Published: Aug 30 2017 - 7:47am
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), in collaboration with the Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC), released a study presenting the findings of a human rights-based analysis of the forced eviction and relocation of flood-affected communities in the...
Published: Aug 8 2017 - 12:56pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) published this report analyzing their findings after researching the current legal developments in Zimbabwe's mining sector, particularly centered on developments in the legislative framework. The report is an analysis of the Mines and Minerals...
Published: Aug 4 2017 - 3:41pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
Illicit financial flows: why we should claim these resources for gender, economic and social justice
This policy brief, published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), concentrates on three issues. The first is the basic concept of illicit financial flows (IFFs) and their disproportional gender impact, in relation to the drain in developing countries of critical resources,...
Published: Aug 4 2017 - 2:33pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
ESCR-Net Member, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI), contributed a to the Good Governance Learning Network (GGLN)’s annual report, Navigating Accountability and Collaboration in Local Governance. The chapter reflects on SERI's work to improve social and spatial justice through a combination...
Published: Aug 4 2017 - 12:50pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), in collaboration with UN Women, recently published a briefing paper focusing on the challenges and opportunities for using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to improve accountability for women’s human rights.
There is concern that these SDGs...
Published: Aug 1 2017 - 1:38pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member
The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) collaborated with two other organizations, Fields of View and the Forum against EWS Land Grab, to conduct a study and publish an impact assessment. The purpose of this is to highlight the real extent of the losses and costs incurred by the community as a...
Published: Aug 1 2017 - 1:21pm
Developed by an ESCR-Net Member