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Inter-American Court Recognizes Care as a Human Right: A Victory for Feminist and Human Rights Movements Read In: Español Français العربية

✨ Historic: The @corteidh.bsky.social has recognized Care as a Human Right. 🌍 Thirty of our members contributed arguments and lived experiences to this process.
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La Corte Interamericana reconoce el cuidado como un derecho humano: un logro de los movimientos feministas y de derechos humanos Read In: English (original) Français العربية

✨ 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

Accountability Now: 12 Countries Take Action To Stop the Genocide in Gaza Read In: Español Français العربية

🇵🇸 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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ESCR-Net Welcomes Historic Inter-American Court Decision Declaring Climate Crisis a Human Rights Emergency Read In: Español Français العربية

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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@ciel.org

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

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...

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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🚫 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

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...

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.
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🇦🇷 From Argentina, we welcome SOCRA to #FPAR!
Their research will highlight the Delia Parodi cooperative—led by women and LGTBIQ+ workers—providing community-based care. They’ll advocate for the recognition and formalization of caregiving as essential to economic and social well-being.

🇹🇿 From Tanzania, we’re excited to welcome WATED (Women’s Action Towards Economic Development)! Their research will spotlight care work’s role in sustainable economies, women’s climate leadership, and gender-responsive climate finance—grounded in community resilience and intergenerational knowledge.

🇵🇸 From Palestine, we’re proud to welcome Bisan Center for Research and Development. Their research will explore how women navigate caregiving and survival under occupation and patriarchy, documenting solidarity-based economies that center care and collective well-being.

🌏 From Papua New Guinea, we welcome Porgera Red Wara Women’s Association. A grassroots, women-led group supports communities affected by the Porgera Gold Mine. Their research will uplift disrupted care systems and promote regenerative economies grounded in Indigenous knowledge.

Announcement: Co-Creating Knowledge for Regenerative, Care-Centered Economies Read In: Español Français العربية

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...

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.

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

🗣️ 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

El costo de la “energía verde” en los derechos humanos: la Red-DESC presenta un nuevo documento al relator especial de la ONU sobre cambio climático Read In: English (original) Français العربية

⚡ A medida que el mundo avanza hacia las energías renovables, las violaciones de derechos humanos suelen ser ignoradas: la minería de litio y cobalto devasta a comunidades vulnerables e indígenas. Lee nuestra presentación al Relator Especial de la ONU.
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Exposing the Human Rights Cost of “Green” Energy: ESCR-Net Submits Input to UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change Read In: Español Français العربية

⚡ 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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Unified Call to Confront Famine in Gaza: Launch the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy Now Read In: Español Français العربية

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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🔴 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.

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...

📢 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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