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Today is the perfect day to support us in our fight for social justice through the use of everyday rights.

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Putting human rights on the table: launch of the Right to Food Commission | Just Fair Today, the UK Right to Food Commission launches in Parliament- a landmark step to put the human right to food back on the national agenda. After years of austerity, millions now rely on food banks and emergency aid. What should have been a temporary crisis response has become routine. Hunger is not inevitable – it […]

🍽️ Food insecurity is a human rights issue. The newly launched Right to Food Commission is calling for evidence to help build a stronger case for action.

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Why are four million children still going hungry in the UK in 2026? Hunger in the UK is the scourge that ceases to abate. It's time to build a road map to meaningful and lasting change.

🗞️ Why are four million children still going hungry in the UK in 2026?

Food insecurity, child poverty and inequality are not inevitable. They are failures to protect the right to food, housing and an adequate standard of living.

Rights must shape policy

Young people’s participation in education and work is a rights issue.

Our submission to the UK Gov calls for a rights-based approach that tackles barriers like education costs, insecure work and inequality.

When rights lead, outcomes improve. ✊📚

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📫 In our newsletter this week:

📚 What you said about us in our recent survey
🌊 Our letter to the Home Secretary about migrant rights
💷 Donate to support our fight for rights

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We’re proud to make everyday rights real with you.

You highlighted our collaboration, lived experience work and leadership on ESCR. One response said we have an “outsized impact considering our size” - we’ll take that! 💥

Thank you for being part of our community.

💬 A huge thank you to everyone who took part in our recent survey

You described Just Fair as “small but mighty”, “punching well above its size”, and the “go-to partner on economic, social and cultural rights”.

Reform plans to scrap Equality Act – what it would mean for Britain

Reform UK has announced plans to repeal the Equality Act.

The Equality Act protects people from discrimination at work, in housing, education and public services. Repealing it would strip away vital rights protections.

Equality isn’t optional. It’s fundamental
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Influencing for impact: Making policy design fairer - Public Law Project Four 90-minute webinars & one online workshop via Zoom on how to influence the design of policies to make them fairer.

🗣️ We’re excited to have Helen Flynn joining expert speakers from NGOs, councils, and think tanks at Public Law Project’s upcoming training.

We will be discussing how to influence policy design to make it fairer.

Join Wed 25 March from 2-3:30pm via Zoom.

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🧠 The right to the highest attainable standard of mental health applies to everyone.

Platfform’s latest report highlights how a personality disorder diagnosis can limit people’s access to care, undermine their human rights, and lead to restrictive and harmful practices.

Moving the goal posts: how the ‘earned settlement’ proposals undermine rights and the rule of law | Just Fair We have written to the Home Secretary to strongly oppose the UK Government’s A Fairer Pathway to Settlement proposals (the ‘earned settlement proposals’) and express deep concern that they risk causin...

✉️ Last week, we wrote to the Home Secretary to strongly oppose the UK Gov's earned settlement proposals and express concerns that they risk causing harm, undermining the rule of law, and raise serious questions about compliance with international rights obligations.

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Young people’s participation in education and work is a rights issue.

Our submission calls for a rights-based approach that tackles barriers like education costs, insecure work and inequality.
When rights lead, outcomes improve. ✊📚

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🍽️ Food insecurity is a human rights issue. The Right to Food Commission is calling for evidence to help build a stronger case for action.

Lived experience, frontline insight and expertise are vital to shaping solutions that work.
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❄️ This winter, help us protect the right to thrive. Inequality and persistent poverty mean thousands are denied warm homes and nourishing food. These are human rights issues.

Your donation helps us fight for the foundations everyone needs to flourish.
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📬 Everyday rights—like housing, health, education, and social security—are fundamental human rights. If you care about dignity, justice, and equality, sign up to our newsletter and stay informed on how to protect these rights for all.

Stark and unacceptable. The right to housing is a human right, yet women are bearing the brunt of the rental crisis.

This is not inevitable. It reflects policy choices about housing supply, social security and tenant protections. Different choices can protect rights and prevent homelessness.

Why housing people seeking asylum at Crowborough is a dangerous mistake | Just Fair This was orginally published in the Big Issue. This week, people who fled war and persecution will be housed on a former military base at Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex. The government calls it a solution. In reality, it is the revival of a policy that has already failed, with consequences ministers were warned […]

🛏️ Housing people seeking asylum in military barracks isn’t a solution, it’s a repeat of a failed policy.

Our new piece with @hrw.org lays out why this new plan undermines the rights to housing & health.

Rights-respecting solutions exist; ministers should choose them.

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | Just Fair The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is a body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). ICESCR protects rights such as housing, health and education, those essential conditions needed to live a life of dignity and freedom. Every four to eight […]

A year on, we’re still using those recommendations in our advocacy with the UK Government, Parliament and local decision-makers. They remain a powerful tool for accountability and a roadmap for a more rights-based UK.

Read more about our work 👇

The Committee’s concluding observations, published afterwards, set out clear recommendations:
📌 Tackle poverty and inequality
📌 Strengthen social protection
📌 Use maximum available resources to realise rights

During the review, the UN Committee questioned the UK on poverty, inequality, social security, housing, food insecurity and more — linking economic policy directly to people’s rights and dignity.

Ahead of the review, we submitted a report drawing on input from civil society organisations and people with lived experience of poverty and inequality.

Their evidence made clear how gaps in housing, food, social security, health and work are affecting rights in real life.

One year ago, we were in Geneva for the UN review of the UK’s record on economic, social and cultural rights.

It was a key moment to bring evidence from communities across the UK directly to the international stage. 🧵

📫 We have written to the Home Secretary to strongly oppose the UK Gov's earned settlement proposals and express concerns that they risk causing harm, undermining the rule of law, and raise serious questions about compliance with international rights obligations.

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UK ESCR Network | Just Fair UK ESCR Network The UK Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network is a collective of organisations and individuals committed to the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights, without discrimination in the UK.  What is the UK ESCR Network? Just Fair is proud to chair and support the UK Economic, Social and Cultural […]

🌱 The UK ESCR Network keeps growing—over 200 members and counting!

If you care about human rights, fairness, and tackling inequality, we’d love to have you on board. Whether you're an organisation or individual, join the movement:

🏠 Andy Burnham says clearly and powerfully: housing should be a human right, enshrined in UK law.

When politicians talk about homes in terms of rights, not just markets, it shifts the conversation.

This is what a rights based approach to housing sounds like.

Young people’s participation in education and work is a rights issue.

Our submission to the UK Gov calls for a rights-based approach that tackles barriers like education costs, insecure work and inequality. When rights lead, outcomes improve. ✊📚

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❄️ This winter, help us protect the right to thrive. Inequality and persistent poverty mean thousands are denied warm homes and nourishing food. These are human rights issues.

Your donation helps us fight for the foundations everyone needs to flourish.
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🗣️ We’re excited to have Helen Flynn joining expert speakers from NGOs, councils, and think tanks at Public Law Project’s upcoming training on how to influence policy design to make it fairer and create meaningful impact.

Wed 25 March 2-3:30pm via Zoom.

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Today we were at the @resolutionfoundation.org’s Unsung Britain conference, highlighting life for the poorer half of the UK. Low incomes, insecure housing and poor health are not inevitable.

✊ Economic, social and cultural rights set the standards people should be able to rely on when systems fail.

UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review | University of Essex UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review.

Sign up for this upcoming discussion with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting and country monitoring.

🗓️ 12 March
⏰ 13:00 - 14:30

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