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Strengthening accountability
CESR seeks to strengthen the recognition and enforcement of economic and social rights by these mechanisms of accountability.
Advancing Rights Monitoring
Effective monitoring is essential for making human rights meaningful. It underpins efforts to ensure accountability when laws and policies create, perpetuate or exacerbate deprivations of economic and social rights
Challenging Fiscal Injustice through Human Rights
Taxation is a crucial instrument for the realization of human rights, not just because it is necessary for ensuring sufficient resources to support rights, but also because tax policy plays such a fundamental role in redressing inequalities and in shaping just how accountable governments are to their people.
International accountability
We live in a world that is characterised by great wealth, yet has the highest levels of inequality since the 1920s. Millions of people continue to live in extreme poverty, hunger and hopelessness. Over 1.2 billion people, one out of every six human beings, goes hungry every day, unable to afford even the basic minimum of daily calories to ensure a healthy, productive and dignified human life. The pledge of freedom from want, as well as freedom from fear in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is far from being realized.
National Human Rights Institutions
NHRIs have a number of unique institutional characteristics that can make them effective monitors of economic and social rights.
El derecho al trabajo
¿Qué es el Derecho al Trabajo? El derecho al trabajo da a todos la oportunidad de ganar un sueldo para vivir en un entorno laboral libre de peligros, y permite a su vez la libertad de organizarse y negociar colectivamente. El derecho al trabajo no garantiza que todo el mundo tenga un empleo; sino que más bien, urge a los gobiernos a que tomen medidas firmes para garantizar su cumplimiento a lo largo del tiempo. Los Estados violan tal derecho cuando no toman tales medidas o cuando empeoran la situación. Este derecho prohíbe el uso de trabajos forzados.
Publicaciones
CESR publica informes frecuentes, hojas de datos, informes y otros análisis de investigación sobre la defensa de los derechos económicos y sociales, tanto temáticos como por países específicos. Puedes explorar nuestras publicaciones más abajo, o acudir también a la página del país específico y/o a la página temática en nuestro sitio web.
Countries
The Center for Economic and Social Rights carries out research and advocacy projects on economic, social and cultural rights in countries around the globe, in collaboration with local human rights advocates and activists. Use the map below to learn more about CESR's work in highlighted countries.
Millennium Development Goals
The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 was a landmark achievement for the international community. Efforts to reach them are falling short, however.
Our Funders
CESR is a not-for-profit international human rights organization with staff based in New York, Washington DC and Lima. Our sources of funding include foundations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations and individual donors. Our work to defend economic and social rights across the globe would not be possible without the support of our donors, both anonymous and those listed below: • Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
Millennium Development Goals
The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 was a landmark achievement for the international community. The eight goals tackle poverty, education, gender equality, child and maternal mortality, HIV and other diseases, environmental sustainability and encourage a global partnership for development. Efforts to reach them are falling short, however.
Sustainable Development Goals
The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 was a landmark achievement for the international community. The eight goals tackle poverty, education, gender equality, child and maternal mortality, HIV and other diseases, environmental sustainability and encourage a global partnership for development. Efforts to reach them are falling short, however.
Events
Conferences and international meetings focused on the global financial and economic crisis
Databases: Statistics and Indicators for Monitoring ESC rights
International statistical databases that provide international and national statistics and key indicators that you can use in monitoring ESC rights.
FAQ on ESC Rights
What are ESC rights? Why are they important? What are some examples of violations of ESC rights? The UN wants you to know.
Guidelines on ESC rights
Find important guidelines on ESC rights here - including the Limburg Principles and the Maastricht Guidelines and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food.
International Bill of Human Rights
The International Bill of Human Rights includes the Universal Declaration and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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CASELAW DATABASES for ESC rights
Here you can find a wide range of caselaw, proceedings and legal decisions on economic and social rights brought before the courts and other judicial agencies around the world.