Center for Economic and Social Rights http://cesr.org/ http://cesr.org/article.php?id=908 Guatemala: Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee <div class="text blurb">CESR, in cooperation with the Multidisciplinary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Guatemala and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, submitted a report to the Human Rights Committee about health and economic issues affecting women in Guatemala, July 2010.</div> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=908 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=904 UN Resolution Recognizes Water as a Right <div class="text blurb">UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring access to clean water and sanitation as a fundamental right.</div> Mon, 02 Aug 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=904 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=902 Health Inequality: A Challenge for Rich and Poor Countries Alike <div class="text blurb">Study finds gap in life expectancy between richest and poorest quintiles in the United Kingdom is wider now than during the Great Depression. </div> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=902 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=900 Tackling Income Inequality in the United States through Financial Literacy Programs <div class="text blurb">The income gap between whites and blacks more than quadrupled between 1984 and 2007, and a quarter of black families have no assets at all.</div> Tue, 06 Jul 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=900 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=896 Justice delayed and denied in India <div class="text blurb">Court ruling on 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster is "too little, too late."</div> Thu, 24 Jun 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=896 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=890 Ecuador Is First Country to Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR <div class="text blurb">New mechanism will ensure that victims of economic rights violations have the right to an effective remedy.</div> Fri, 18 Jun 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=890 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=884 Oil Spills You Never Heard Of <div class="text blurb">Are we only outraged about an oil spill that we can see?</div> Thu, 10 Jun 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=884 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=868 Why UNESCO should just cancel the Obiang life sciences prize. <div class="text blurb">"UNESCO is allowing itself to be used to burnish the unsavory reputation of a cruel and corrupt despot." --Tutu Alicante, EG Justice</div> Mon, 10 May 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=868 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=864 U.S. Must Change Position on Economic and Social Rights <div class="text blurb">Successive governments have seen health, education, housing and other social goods as market commodities rather than as rights which the state has the duty to respect, protect and fulfill.</div> Thu, 06 May 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=864 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=860 Guatemala rinde cuentas ante el Comité de los Derechos del Niño <div class="text blurb">Guatemala presenta unos de los peores resultados de cumplimiento de los derechos económicos y sociales de los niños y niñas de la región</div> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=860 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=850 Equatorial Guinea reports to the UN on human rights commitments <div class="text blurb">Government and NGOs present different pictures before UN Human Rights Council in Geneva</div> Thu, 25 Mar 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=850 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=848 Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea (event) <div class="text blurb">Taking Action on the United Nations' Recommendations, a side event at the 13th session of the Human Rights Council </div> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=848 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=844 Human Rights Responses to the Global Economic Crisis in Geneva <div class="text blurb">Side event on March 4 at the 13th session of the Human Rights Council </div> Tue, 02 Mar 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=844 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=840 Inter-American Development Bank under pressure over new capital requests <div class="text blurb">More than 100 civil society organizations from 18 countries stepped up pressure on the Inter-American Development Bank by demanding transparency and evidence of structural reforms.</div> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=840 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=792 Using Budgets to Monitor Human Rights <div class="text blurb">New online dialogue starting February 24</div> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 http://cesr.org/article.php?id=792