Publications
Over three decades, CESR has published more than 150 pieces that have shaped debates on human rights and economic policies. Browse our database of factsheets, reports, case studies, and more.
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Publications, Reports & Briefings
New Zealand earthquake recovery: empowering rights claiming
A new report from the New Zealand Human Rights Commission in collaboration with CESR analyses human rights issues in the Canterbury earthquake recovery.
Austerity undermining rights says CoE Commissioner
Publication: A new Council of Europe Issue Paper, commissioned from CESR, assesses the human rights impacts of austerity measures and sets out an agenda for change.
Publications, Reports & Briefings, Submissions
Egypt: new report brings economic and social rights deficits to attention of UN
UN submission: CESR has joined forces with a broad coalition of 57 organizations on a joint parallel report taking the Egyptian government to task at the United Nations.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
'Who Will Be Accountable' for the SDGs?
Proper accountability mechanisms must be incorporated into post-2015 development plan if it is to avoid the pitfalls of the MDGs.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
A Matter of Justice: securing human rights in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda
The human rights framework can provide operational principles and standards of conduct to ensure the post-2015 development plan delivers on its promises.
Beyond 2015: Just governance must be a cornerstone of the sustainable development agenda
A new Beyond-2015 paper co-cordinated by CESR explains that just and effective governance must become a central pillar of any future global development framework.
Taking Angola's maternal health record to task at the UN
As oil-rich Angola appears before the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, a new report throws light on maternal health failures in the country.
Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Tools to Monitor the Obligation to Fulfil ESCR
Article: In this article in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights we briefly analyse the range of new methodologies which have been developed to monitor the positive obligation to fulfil ESCR, and discuss the OPERA Framework.
CESR contributes to major UN publication on future of MDGs
CESR Researcher Allison Corkery has contributed a chapter to the new UNDP publication 'Accelerating Achievement of MDGs by Ways and Means of Economic and Social Rights'.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
The Group of 20, Financial Regulation and Human Rights
Briefing: The fourth publication in the 'Righting Financial Regulation' series examines how human rights should inform the G20's role in managing the financial system.
Spain Factsheet (2012)
2012 factsheet on economic, social and cultural rights in Spain since the economic crisis took hold in 2007.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Financial Transactions Tax: A Human Rights Imperative
The third briefing in the 'Righting Financial Regulation' series provides an overview of how the FTT would work and the benefits it would provide.
Spain's austerity measures under the spotlight
CESR has coordinated a parallel report to the UN with 18 other civil society organizations.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Spanish civil society submits parallel report to CESCR
CESR has coordinated a parallel report which has been submitted to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) ahead of its 48th session in May 2012.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Mauled by the Celtic Tiger: Human rights in Ireland's economic meltdown
A new CESR report finds that human rights in Ireland are being undermined by response measures implemented in the wake of the country's financial crisis.
Moments of Truth: Economic and Social Rights in Transitions to Democracy
CESR Program Director Gaby Oré Aguilar and University of Deusto professor Felipe Gómez Isa publish a new book exploring the equality and social justice dimensions of societies emerging from conflict.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Bolivia goes hungry on World Food Day
CESR has collaborated on a new report addressing hunger and food insecurity in Bolivia.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
National Human Rights Institutions and Economic and Social Rights
This 2011 briefing examines national human rights institutions as monitors of economic, social and cultural rights.
Maternal Mortality: Submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
CESR's submission on best practices in addressing maternal mortality (2011).
Spain: Submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CESR's joint submission with Observatori DESC on economic, social and cultural rights in Spain (2011).
Manuals & Guides, Publications
New primer aims to strengthen monitoring by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
New primer to enable more effective monitoring of economic, social and cultural rights in the East African country.
Syria: Submission to UN Human Rights Council's UPR
CESR's joint submission with the Arab NGO Network for the 12th session of the Universal Periodic Review, October 2011.
Sexual and Reproductive Health: Submission to UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
CESR's submission on the right to sexual and reproductive health, to be discussed by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights during its 45th Session on November 15, 2010.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
The MDGs, A Decade On: Keeping the Promise, Fulfilling Rights
A new CESR review of the latest MDG data finds progress has been too slow even to meet the MDGs' modest 2015 targets.
Publications, Reports & Briefings
Development and human rights: lessons learned from the MDGs
Guest briefing written for CESR by author Rick Rowden.
Guatemala: Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee
Produced with Planned Parenthood abd the Multidisciplinary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Guatemala.
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.
Guatemala: Submission to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
CESR's joint submission with Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI) to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
United States: Submission to UPR
CESR's individual and an NGO joint submission to the UPR, November 2010
Egypt: Submission to UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review
Joint submission to the OHCHR at the seventh session of the Universal Periodic Review, 2010.