ESCR Resources
ESCR-Net’s Women and ESCR Working Group briefing paper series focuses on the intersection between women and specific economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) issues. The papers present specific and systemic challenges to the realization of women’s ESCR in practice and explore progressive...
Published: Mar 16 2016 - 6:43pm
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General Comment No. 23 (2016) on the Right to just and favorable conditions of work (article 7 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) I. IntroductionThe right of everyone to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work is recognized in the...
Published: Mar 14 2016 - 10:29am
General Comment No. 22 (2016) on the Right to sexual and reproductive health (article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) I. IntroductionThe right to sexual and reproductive health is an integral part of the right to health enshrined in article 12 of...
Published: Mar 14 2016 - 10:25am
Chaque année, des millions de personnes partout dans le monde sont menacées par des expulsions ou sont expulsées de force, et souvent se retrouvent sans logement, sans terres et réduites à la pauvreté et au dénuement extrêmes. Il n’est pas rare que les expulsions forcées se soldent par de graves...
Published: Mar 9 2016 - 5:29pm
Cada año, millones de personas alrededor del mundo están amenazadas por desalojos o son desalojadas por la fuerza, lo cual a menudo las deja sin hogar, sin tierra y en la extrema pobreza y la indigencia. Los desalojos forzosos suelen dar lugar a traumas graves y retrasan aún más las vidas de...
Published: Mar 9 2016 - 5:28pm
Every year, millions of people around the world are threatened by evictions or forcibly evicted, often leaving them homeless, landless, and living in extreme poverty and destitution. Forced evictions commonly result in severe trauma and set back even further the lives of those that are often...
Published: Mar 9 2016 - 5:26pm
ESCR-net member Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative’s (CHRI), in conjunction with the Praja Foundation, reported on the state of policing and Law & order in Delhi with the aim to provide a holistic view, in very objective terms relying solely on official data, of the state of crime and...
Published: Mar 1 2016 - 11:52am
The report critically examines the situation of women in policing in Bangladesh. It is based on the premise that gender equality, besides being a value to be upheld in and of itself, is a vital attribute for effective and genuinely impartial law enforcement. At its core, the report champions the...
Published: Feb 26 2016 - 1:07pm
The report comes from the Praja Foundation and the CHRI on state of policing and Law & order in Delhi with the aim to provide a holistic view, in very objective terms relying solely on official data, of the state of crime and policing in Delhi for the year 2014. The report further reveals what...
Published: Feb 26 2016 - 1:07pm
Chacun a le droit de vivre dans un environnement propre à assurer sa santé et son bien-être.Résolution A/RES/45/94 de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies Qu'est-ce que le droit à un environnement sain ?Tout le monde a le droit à un environnement sain. Un environnement sain est considéré comme...
Published: Feb 21 2016 - 1:01am