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Care as a human right: A new mandate to build gender-responsive public services
We welcome the Inter-American Court on Human Rights’ historic recognition of care as a human right.
Tax abuse leads to human rights abuse
Policy-makers have played Jenga with the broken international corporate tax system for some time. It’s time to build a new foundation for effective taxation of multinationals.
Tax Justice Network's U.S. tax reform podcast: The killing of the American Dream
27 February: Niko Lusiani discusses the link between U.S. tax reforms and human rights deprivations on Tax Justice Network's latest podcast.
USA: Extreme poverty and inequality in a land of plenty
The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights undertook a revealing fact-finding mission to the USA.
U.S. Tax Plan’s Spiraling Consequences for Human Rights and Poverty – At Home and Abroad
Media: 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.
U.S. Tax Plan’s Spiraling Consequences for Human Rights and Poverty – At Home and Abroad
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.
How the US defended its human rights record before the United Nations
The US government presents its human rights record to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
United States Factsheet
Despite its wealth, the United States has one the poorest records of economic and social rights achievement of all high-income countries.
United States: Submission to UPR
CESR's individual and an NGO joint submission to the UPR, November 2010
Publications, Reports & Briefings
The Right to Health in the United States
The US health care system falls short of international standards for the right to health (2004).
Factsheets, Manuals & Guides, Publications
United States: Fighting for the Right to Education
CESR has focused on efforts to improve educational standards in New York City public schools by bringing a human rights perspective to education issues.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
"Treated Like Slaves" Donna Karan, Inc. Violates Workers' Rights
This preliminary report examines violations of women workers' human rights in the Choe factories in New York City.