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COVID-19: Resourcing Rights—June 2020 Round-Up
CESR is undertaking a number of activities to deepen understanding about commitments governments have made to guarantee socioeconomic rights. Our goal is to spark conversations about how human rights standards can help shape responses to... Read More
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.
The Millennium Summit: an opportunity to show leadership on women's rights
September 14, 2010
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
September 9, 2010
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
August 11, 2010
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... Read More