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We are a global network of 280 members in 75 countries working to make #humanrights and #socialjustice a reality for all. Content in English and Spanish.
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📣 We’re thrilled to welcome #MisunWoo as ESCR-Net’s new Executive Director!

We are excited for this new chapter of collective leadership, solidarity, and transformation at ESCR-Net.

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November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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📢Members of @escrnet.bsky.social call on governments at #COP30 to decolonize climate action and center peoples-led solutions. Checkout the 6 pillar policy brief here: www.escr-net.org/resources/co...
COP30 Policy Brief | Centering Peoples-Led Solutions: Our Common Agenda for a Decolonized Climate Future
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November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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✨ Histórico: La @corteidh.bsky.social
reconoce el cuidado como derecho humano.
🌍 30 de nuestras miembras aportaron argumentos y experiencias en este proceso.
👉Conoce más en: www.escr-net.org/es/news/2025... @giescr.bsky.social @cels-argentina.bsky.social @observadesca.bsky.social
La Corte Interamericana reconoce el cuidado como un derecho humano: un logro de los movimientos feministas y de derechos humanos
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August 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🇵🇸 In Bogotá, Global South countries took concrete steps to end the genocide in Gaza. At @ESCRNet, we’ve long challenged corporate capture—exposing how corporations profit from apartheid, occupation, and genocide in Palestine.
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Accountability Now: 12 Countries Take Action To Stop the Genocide in Gaza
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July 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The Inter-American Court has spoken: the climate crisis is a human rights emergency. States have binding legal duties to act, prevent harm & ensure justice. A powerful tool for climate justice—fueled by over 260 civil society inputs, including us.

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ESCR-Net Welcomes Historic Inter-American Court Decision Declaring Climate Crisis a Human Rights Emergency
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July 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Condenamos el intento de asesinato, detención arbitraria y agresión policial contra Mabel Robledo, defensora garífuna de @ofraneh.bsky.social y testigo ante la Corte Interaméricana de DDHH. Exigimos justicia, protección y el fin de la persecución al pueblo garífuna. @criteriohn.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Tax justice pays dividends – fair corporate taxation grows jobs, shrinks inequality. Guest blog from Daniel Bertossa @psiglobalunion.bsky.social and Séverine Picard of Progressive Policies
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Tax justice pays dividends - fair corporate taxation grows jobs, shrinks inequality - Tax Justice Network
Governments keep cutting headline corporate‑tax rates in the hope of attracting investment and “creating jobs”. Yet the most comprehensive cross‑country study to date tells a different story. It disma...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🚫 Stop public funding for fossil fuels.

As #FFD4 nears, demand real climate finance for a #JustTransition — not polluters.

🌍 Fund people. Fund the future.

#EndFossilFinance #ClimateFinanceNow #FFD4People
June 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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New #oped in The Diplomat: Why Asia Must Step Up to Rein in Corporate Accountability By Shohel Hajong, Debbie Stothard & Emilie Palamy Pradichit - The LBI is a chance to push back on corporate impunity.
thediplomat.com/2025/06/why-...
Why Asia Must Step Up to Rein in Corporate Accountability – Before It’s Too Late
For many countries in Asia, the Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights offers a rare opportunity to rebalance power in an international system that has long favored corporate interest...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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We are thrilled to announce the selected participants of our Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) project—an 18-month journey to build collective knowledge and advocacy for care-centered, regenerative economies grounded in climate and economic justice. www.escr-net.org/news/2025/an...
Announcement: Co-Creating Knowledge for Regenerative, Care-Centered Economies
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June 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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While the Global South brings urgency and solutions to upcoming #FfD4, Global North governments remain absent in presence & ambition

Europe is blocking progress on just debt resolution & democratic tax reform. It’s time to back UN-led financing for development centered on rights.

#EraOfJustice
Cityscape of Seville, Spain under clear skies on the left, with bold white text on an orange background on the right reading: "The Global South is showing up for #FfD4. Will European countries step up?" At the bottom right corner is the logo of the Center for Economic and Social Rights.
May 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🗣️ How can we protect #EnvironmentalDefenders? 

We urge the #IACtHR to incorporate the protections from the Escazú Agreement into its Advisory Opinion on the #ClimateEmergency as a vital complementary standard to existing global and regional human rights frameworks.
 
#EscazúInTheIACtHR
May 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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⚡ As the world shifts to renewable energy, human rights violations are often ignored—lithium and cobalt mining devastate vulnerable and Indigenous communities. Read our submission to the UN Special Rapporteur.

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Exposing the Human Rights Cost of “Green” Energy: ESCR-Net Submits Input to UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change
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May 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hunger and starvation in Gaza are worsening under the devastating impact of the Israeli blockade. Over 300 civil society organizations worldwide demand that governments launch a diplomatic humanitarian convoy to Gaza. @almezan.bsky.social #alhaq_org
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Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now
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May 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🔴 Hoy denunciamos la detención arbitraria de Ruth López en El Salvador — abogada anticorrupción de @cristosal.bsky.social y una de las 100 mujeres más influyentes del mundo según #BBCMundo (2024). Criminalizar la defensa de derechos es inaceptable.
May 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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📢 NEW BLOG: The Political Economy of Violence (PEV) reveals how repression, land dispossession, war, and militarization serve the interests of corporations and elites—prioritizing profit over people.
📖 Read more. Our content is available in EN, SP, FR, and AR.
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Understanding the Political Economy of Violence and the Urgency of Solidarity
On January 10, two members of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST), Valdir do Nascimento de Jesus and Gleison Barbosa de Carvalho, were brutally assassinated in the Olga Benário settlement. This a...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM