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Time for a Rights-Based Global Economic Stimulus to Tackle COVID-19
March 27, 2020
Safeguarding human rights in economic responses to the crisis demands governments finally lay to rest the prevailing dogma of austerity. Economic rescue packages—nationally and globally—must protect the socioeconomic rights of those most... Read More
Human rights must rise to the challenge of growing inequality, not retreat in defeat
May 17, 2018
The challenges economic inequality poses for 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
May 11, 2018
The OPERA House project asks which tools human rights activists need to better understand and tackle the unjust socioeconomic structures that cause so many of the world’s human rights violations.  
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.