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CESR condemns assault, coercion and threats of human rights workers and journalists in Egypt
Crackdown campaign betrays an apparent attempt to stifle the flow of information, silence independent reporting and to eliminate potential witnesses to further government repressions that may occur in the coming days.
Disparities Underlie Calls for Change
Disparities between youth and adults, and between men and women, especially in health, education and labor rights, reveal much.
Defining Business Respect For and Protection of Human Rights
NGOs respond to a new UN framework on business and human rights.
CESR at the UN: the United States' human rights obligations (video).
The obligation of every government is to protect, respect, and fulfill economic and social rights. Watch CESR's comments and those of our allies about the United States' responsibilities.
Rolling back economic and social rights to aid the banks?
Should Ireland cut the protection of economic and social rights to finance this deficit? And who is bearing the burden of these cuts?
Climate Change And Human Rights: Will Cancun Deliver?
As countries converge on Cancun this week for the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference, can it deliver what Copenhagen could not? Including human rights can help bring climate justice to the center of negotiations.
Time for the G20 to be global leaders where it counts
As the G20 convenes this week in Seoul, will the world's most powerful leaders take their human rights obligations into consideration as they convene to discuss the global economy?
US Must Not Betray Freedom from Want
Call comes as the United Nations issues 228 recommendations to the United States on human rights improvement.
Human Rights Groups Urge the United States to Place Greater Focus on Achieving Freedom from Want
Call Comes as the United States Appears Before the United Nations to Report on Human Rights Compliance.
CESR to co-host event on U.S. human rights record at the UN
November 5 in Geneva: "Building Foundations for Freedom from Want in the Land of Plenty"
UNESCO Suspends Dictator Prize After Global Protest
CESR and its partners welcomed UNESCO's decision today to suspend, indefinitely, the prize funded by and named after President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.
Spain First to Ratify New UN Protocol on ESCR
CESR and allies welcome Spain's ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR.
Building a Global Partnership for Development through MDG 8
MDG 8 sets a wide range of targets on trade, aid, debt and increasing access to new technologies and essential medicines. However, a review of progress on consolidating a global partnership reveals worrying trends about rich countries' commitment to the attainment of the MDGs.
Message to UN General Assembly: "Don't forget human rights in achieving the Millennium Goals"
Top independent human rights experts call on world leaders attending next week's UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals "to be guided by human rights."
A millennium promise, 10 years later
CESR Executive Director Ignacio Saiz says that the Millennium Declaration and the eight development goals that flowed from it risk going down in history as the most important promise never kept.
The Millennium Summit: an opportunity to show leadership on women's rights
MDG 5, which focuses on improving maternal health, has been the most neglected and underfunded. Not surprisingly, it has shown very uneven progress.
Maternal Health Goal May Be Furthest Off-Target
Lack of accountability hampers achievement of MDG 5 on reducing maternal mortality and increasing access to reproductive health care, writes CESR Board Chair Alicia Yamin in a recent journal article.
UNESCO: Pull Obiang Prize
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization should cancel the Obiang Prize at its next session in October 2010, the Center for Economic and Social Rights and 95 partner groups said in a letter sent to UNESCO Executive Board members today.
UN Resolution Recognizes Water as a Right
UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring access to clean water and sanitation as a fundamental right.
Tackling Income Inequality in the United States through Financial Literacy Programs
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.
Justice delayed and denied in India
Court ruling on 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster is "too little, too late."
Ecuador Is First Country to Ratify the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
New mechanism will ensure that victims of economic rights violations have the right to an effective remedy.
UNESCO Must Stop Discredited Prize
Equatorial Guinea Seeks to Resurrect UNESCO-Obiang Science Prize.
Why UNESCO should just cancel the Obiang life sciences prize
"UNESCO is allowing itself to be used to burnish the unsavory reputation of a cruel and corrupt despot." --Tutu Alicante, EG Justice
UNESCO: End Alliance with Corrupt Dictator
UNESCO-Obiang Science Prize Funded by Suspect Money from Equatorial Guinea Leader.
US Must Change Position on Economic and Social Rights
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.
US Faces Rare International Scrutiny on Economic and Social Rights
Despite being the world's wealthiest economy, the United States has one the poorest records of economic and social rights achievement of all high-income countries, a new CESR analysis shows.
Equatorial Guinea reports to Human Rights Council
Government and NGOs present different pictures before UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Human Rights Responses to the Global Economic Crisis in Geneva
The Center for Economic and Social Rights, along with ESCR-Net and the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS), is sponsoring an event on Thursday, March 4 from 13:15-15:00 in Room XXIII of the Palais de Nations (Geneva). The event is called "Human Rights Responses to the Global Economic Crisis."
Inter-American Development Bank under pressure over new capital requests
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.