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Demonstrators in Kenya join the Global Protest to Fight Inequality.
What Place for Human Rights in the Growing Movement against Inequality?
January 28, 2020
How can human rights tools and approaches help amplify the efforts and experiences of those who face inequality on a daily basis? 
Economic inequality and human rights: towards a more nuanced assessment
April 26, 2018
The challenges facing human rights are not the death knell for the movement, but a wake up call for a more holistic approach.  
The next act for OPERA: Part 2—How do we get there?
April 24, 2018
CESR wants to deepen its understanding of who is currently using OPERA or its related methodological tools, and how. We’re inviting interested collaborators to sign up to learn more about getting involved in the OPERA House project.
The next act for OPERA: Part 1—From where to where?
April 19, 2018
What tools do human rights activists need to better understand, and, more importantly, tackle, the unjust socioeconomic structures that cause so many of the world’s human rights violations? The Center for Economic and Social Rights is... Read More
IMF Springs: Reconciling conflicting messages on austerity and inequality
April 17, 2018
At the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank this week, CESR will share its work on human rights in times of austerity, and will promote more sufficient, equitable and accountable fiscal policies that uphold human rights. 
Assessing Austerity: Tools for preventing another Lost Decade for human rights
March 1, 2018
Setting out a methodological framework for assessing and addressing the human rights impacts of fiscal consolidation.        
Two years on, can human rights rescue the 2030 Agenda?
February 15, 2018
Two years since the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development came into force, a “business as usual” approach to implementation risks betraying its lofty ambition to “transform our world.” 
Kenya: Using OPERA to ensure UN recommendations are met
December 22, 2017
While UN human rights bodies are issuing stronger recommendations on ESCR, CESR works with national partners around the world to build up implementation tracking mechanisms.
USA: Extreme poverty and inequality in a land of plenty
December 22, 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights undertook a revealing fact-finding mission to the USA.
We can't afford another "lost decade"
December 19, 2017
Ignacio Saiz explains how CESR’s work this year pinpoints austerity as the single most pervasive threat to economic and social rights worldwide. Please consider making a year-end contribution toward CESR's efforts.
U.S. Tax Plan’s Spiraling Consequences for Human Rights and Poverty – At Home and Abroad
December 13, 2017
CESR's Niko Lusiani writes in FACTCoalition about CESR bringing the human rights costs of the proposed U.S. tax cuts to the attention of leading UN human rights official Philip Alston now investigating poverty in the country.