At #HRC61 panel on financing for sustainable development & #ESCR, #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 stresses that inclusive finance is key to eradicate poverty and promote decent work. 🇱🇺 contributes through initiatives such as the Luxembourg Green Exchange and a sovereign sustainability bond.
📄 Read this in-depth analysis of the draft treaty on transnational corporations & human rights, jointly authored by @fian-international.bsky.social, @fesonline.bsky.social, #ESCR Net, @franciscansintl.bsky.social, @ishr.ch, and CIEL:
www.fian.org/wp-content/u...
At today’s #UNGA3C interactive dialogues,🇨🇭:
🔹Voiced concerns about shrinking civic space & reprisals against #HumanRightsDefenders
🔹Recalled the right to freedom of peaceful association & assembly
🔹Condemned #ESCR violations in armed conflicts
Picture from the Rising Current Exhibit showing a wetland shoreline for Lower Manhattan.
Map of how Lower Manhattan was extended through landfill.
From museum exhibit, to award-winning #architecture, to the #ESCR, the dream of a green Lower Manhattan waterfront persisted in its #planning. Was that dream real, or a unicorn? My latest article in natureandspace.bsky.social takes up that question: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
📢 New Publication:
This piece by Nikki Nilwik and Rowie Stolk shares examples of strategic litigation cases and delves into the debate in the Netherlands aimed at restricting these collective actions.
📝Read: rb.gy/s9unlz
📷: Unsplashed.com
#ESCR, #StrategicLitigation, #EffectiveRemedy, #RuleofLaw
📢 New at HRH from the WG on ESCR:
What does affordable energy mean? Laura Kaschny & Leonie Reins dive into EU energy law, SDG 7, and the human rights dimensions of access to sustainable energy.
🔗 Read: rb.gy/7wzvff
📸 AI-generated
#ESCR #EnergyTransition #HumanRights #Affordability #EU #SDGs
Delighted to be invited to #CRAM tinyurl.com/CRAM2025 workshop to present work with #BernhardReinsberg on #IMF programs and the Distributional Politics of Economic and Social Rights #ESCR #DistributionalPolitics #Politics
📣 Call for Abstracts: Advancing ESCR in a Digitalised & Unequal World
🚨 Submit by 30 June 2025 to [l.c.pinto.e.netto@law.leidenuniv.nl] with the subject line: “ESCR Conference 2025 – Abstract Submission.”
📎 Details here: rb.gy/8zhpgw
#Academia, #NNHRR, #ESCR, #ClimateChange, #DigitalRevolution
„Schweden. Du hast uns ABBA geschenkt und 2024 die Show ausgetragen. Aber reicht es auch dieses Jahr? Du bist es… vielleicht.“ #Eurovision #ESC2025 #ESCr
📢 New job opportunity
The University of Liverpool is looking for a Centre Manager to help drive forward cutting-edge work of the Centre for People’s Justice!
📍 University of Liverpool
🕒 3 June 2025
Apply 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMZ939/c...
#HumanRightsJobs #ESCR
📢 New at HRH from the WG on ESCR
Statelessness affects millions, leaving people without access to basic rights. Caia Vlieks dives into how gaps in legal protections make life harder especially when rights depend on citizenship.
📎Read: rb.gy/tzmvwx
📷: Rostyslav Savchyn
#ESCR, #statelessness, #ECHR
🆕 New on Human Rights Here 📢
Part of a special NNHRR series, this post by Jolanda Andela explores barriers to ESCR justiciability in the Netherlands and where legal protection could be strengthened.
📖 Read: rb.gy/liqub6
📸: Nederlands Juristenblad
#ESCR #Justiciability #Constitution #OPtoICESCR
New blog’s up at Human Rights Here! 💬
Part of a series spotlighting the NNHRR WG on ESCR, this one’s by Zora Geertsema — looking at the right to family life through a gender-sensitive lens.
📝 Read the full blog here 👉 rb.gy/6hg9tz
📸: Pixabay.com
#WomensRrights #ESCR #GenderEquality
Environment-related resolutions adopted at #HRC58 include:
🔹 #RightToHealthyEnvironment | #Ocean & human rights
🔹 #ESCR
🔹 UN SR #RightToFood Mandate
🔹 Effects of Foreign Debt on HR
🔹 Human rights defenders #EHRDs
🔹 Anti-personnel mines
🔹 & more
▶️ tiny.cc/HRC58Environ...
🚨 New Blog on HRH! 🚨
Arya Anand delves into the exploitation of Migrant Domestic Worker women under Lebanon’s Kafala system, exposing how it enables modern-day “contractual” slavery.
💬 Read more: rb.gy/ee769m
📷 Mohamed Azakir, Reuters
#LabourMigration, #WomensRights, #ESCR, #ModernSlavery
📖 Access to Rule of Law: A Cornerstone for ESCR
In this blog for HRH & the ESCR (NNHRR), Nathalie Schnabl explores why access to the rule of law is essential for protecting economic, social, and cultural rights.
💡 Read more: rb.gy/wrr043
📷 Credits: Pixabay.com
#RuleOfLaw #ESCR #NNHRR
🌍 Access to Food as an International Rights Issue
This blog at HRH from WG on ESCR, Otto Spijkers, highlights the need for a human rights-based approach to food access while the UN's goal is unmet.
🔗 Read: rb.gy/xgdltr
📷 Credits: MrsJacqueline, Pixabay.com
#RightToFood #SDGs #ESCR #Starvation
🗣️ Le mercredi 19 février, notre fondatrice, sera auditionnée par la Délégation aux Outre-Mer de l’Assemblée nationale sur l’inclusion des territoires français dits “d’Outremer” dans la Charte sociale Européenne du Conseil de l’Europe.
#outremer #europe #escr #droitshumains
📢 New: Working Group on ESCR at NNHRR!
To kick things off, we’re launching a blog series at HRH, covering social security, housing rights, and public interest litigation matters.
📖 Read the 1st blog post by Luísa Netto here:
rb.gy/4r3beb
📸 Credits: Pixabay.com
#HumanRights, #ESCR, #NNHRR
With Friends of the Earth England/Wales/Northern Ireland, @opportunitygreen.bsky.social, @ercscot.bsky.social & @justfairuk.bsky.social, I've written a submission for the #CESCR draft General Comment on #ESCR & the Environmental Dimension of Sustainable Development. justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...
2/3 During the visit, we met with federal and state authorities, including the Itamaraty and Minister of Human Rights, Macaé Evaristo. We also visited Porto Alegre, Vale do Taquari, Estrela, and Lajeado, engaging with Indigenous and quilombola communities. #ESCR
🔎ICJ & #ESCR National Network #JuRI-Nepal's workshop in #Nepal aimed at discussing a human rights-based approach to criminal law.
ICJ’s #8MPs were used as a reference to develop strategies for applying them through legal advocacy📘
🔗For the full details: encr.pw/HLJOF
#HR #CriminalLaw #Nepal
Le Seco organisera prochainement une Conférence nationale sur les recommandations Pacte I ONU #ESCR. J'y presenterai le nouveau rapport #ilspUNIL sur les guides de bonnes pratiques & le fédéralisme suisse. L'événement est public & en ligne....
It is this type of research that really makes the importance of #ESCR, the right to health and non-discrimination understandable to everyone.
Working-class black man has to try 16 times harder to get a therapy appointment...
Grillo said up to $40 million in HUD funding has already been spent on #ESCR design.
Grillo: "Honesty is the best policy and admitting to everyone here and apologizing here may not make everyone feel better, but it’s still the right thing to do." #ESCR
Grillo "Did we communicate the chain properly? No and that’s on me. I take responsibility for that and I apologize. "
"As we move forward, we will do better." #ESCR
.@JTorresSpringer says DDC hopes to have #ESCR project done by 2023 hurricane season and will take more input from the community. Meetings will be scheduled over the next couple of weeks.
oops. @JTorresSpringer 's laptop is running out of power during his presentation. "Anyone have a power chord?" #ESCR
.@JTorresSpringer says new #ESCR plan would allow for E. River park to open earlier.
