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Confronting COVID-19 by Demanding Rights | August 2020 Round-Up
CESR continues to produce work that reflects on economic responses to COVID-19 and related advocacy efforts across movements and countries.
Climate Change And Human Rights: Will Cancun Deliver?
November 29, 2010
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
November 11, 2010
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
November 9, 2010
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
November 2, 2010
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
October 24, 2010
November 5 in Geneva: "Building Foundations for Freedom from Want in the Land of Plenty"
UNESCO Suspends Dictator Prize After Global Protest
October 20, 2010
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
September 22, 2010
CESR and allies welcome Spain's ratification of the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR.
Message to UN General Assembly: "Don't forget human rights in achieving the Millennium Goals"
September 16, 2010
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."
Building a Global Partnership for Development through MDG 8
September 16, 2010
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'... Read More
A millennium promise, 10 years later
September 14, 2010
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.