Rights-Based Economy
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Actualizing a Rights-Based Economy through synergies from alternative economic models
Students at the University of Essex’s Human Rights Centre Clinic dove deep this year into the Rights-Based Economy and its connection to other economic models.
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Pioneering Gender Equality in a Rights-Based Economy
On 19 June 2024, CESR hosted a fascinating roundtable discussion, examining how our vision for a Rights-Based Economy (RBE) can incorporate ideas from indigenous and feminist movements to fully realize economic and social rights. Relive it here.
CESR welcomes new report challenging GDP fixation and advocating for a Rights-Based Economy
We welcome the latest report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter
Breaking barriers, building bridges: pioneering gender equality in a Rights-Based Economy
Explore how a Rights-Based Economy can strengthen gender equality on June 19. Register now!
Reflecting on transformation and collective learning through a milestone workshop in Kenya
As we reach the end of a two-year project supported by the Ford Foundation, we held a reflection and learning workshop in Naivasha, Kenya.
Help us draw the blueprint for a Rights-Based Economy
We're starting a collaboration and learning process, with the aim to gather ideas, critiques, stories and proposals to bring to life the bold and ambitious vision of the Rights-Based Economy.
Are We Advancing Towards a Rights-Based Economy?: Outcomes of CESR’s mid-strategy review process
More activists and organizations are increasingly incorporating a human rights lens into their work, boosting efforts to transform the dominant economic system.
Time for a Rights-Based Economy (the inequality-based one isn’t working)
Human Rights Day message from our Executive Director, Ignacio Saiz
2021 Spotlight Report
Spotlight on Sustainable Development Report 2021 is the most comprehensive global civil society assessment of progress on the sustainable development agenda and the systemic obstacles it faces.
Une Économie Basée sur les Droits: Dans des Périodes Critiques, une Feuille de Route pour l'Action
Nous ne nous sortirons pas de cette crise en relançant la «croissance économique», mais en transformant pour de bon notre système défaillant. Une économie foée sur les droits offre un plan de changement. info@cesr.org
A Rights-Based Economy: In Critical Times, a Roadmap for Action
We will not recover from this crisis by reviving "economic growth", but by transforming our broken system for good. A Rights-Based Economy offers a blueprint for change.
In Critical Times, a Roadmap for Action
Late last year, as part of our effort to tell this new story, CESR published A Rights-Based Economy: putting people and planet first with our partners Christian Aid. Today, we’re launching this short video summarizing some of the ideas in the report. We’re hoping to spark conversation about the economies we need and how we can use human rights to get there.
Webinar | Defining a new economics: what role for human rights?
On Monday, November 9th, CESR will be co-hosting a webinar with the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) and SECTION27 that asks: what role for human rights in defining a new economics?
Envisioning a rights-based economy: new report from CESR and Christian Aid
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and Christian Aid are launching a new publication, A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first. It asks a radical question: what would it would look like if we had an economy based on human rights?
Publications, Reports & Briefings
A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first
What would it would look like if we had an economy based on human rights? CESR and Christian Aid explore this question in A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first.