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Lettre ouverte au Secrétaire général pour le processus de nomination du/de la prochain⋅e Haut⋅e Commissaire des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme (22 juin 2022)
Concerne: La nomination du/de la prochain⋅e Haut⋅e Commissaire des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme Cher Secrétaire général, Le poste de Haut⋅e Commissaire aux droits de l’homme est essentiel à la...
Open letter to the UN Secretary-General on the appointment process of the new High-Commissioner for Human Rights (23 June 2022)
Dear Secretary-General, Re: Appointment of next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The post of High Commissioner for Human Rights is critical to the promotion and protection of human rights...
Argentina + 16 more
Desigual y letal: Cinco claves para recuperarse de la crisis de derechos humanos que desató la pandemia en América Latina y el Caribe
Américas: La cifra desproporcionada de muertes por COVID-19 es resultado de desigualdades ya existentes Se necesitan con urgencia políticas económicas alineadas con los derechos humanos para cambiar...
Argentina + 16 more
Americas: Disproportionate deaths from Covid are the result of pre-existing inequalities
Human rights-aligned economic policies are desperately needed to change course Governments across Latin America and the Caribbean must urgently ramp up spending on the right to social protection and...
New factsheet indicates rights retrogression and worsening living conditions in Egypt
Three years after the Arab Spring, life for ordinary people in Egypt is getting worse instead of better. Poverty levels, which have gone up by 50 percent over the last 15 years, appear to be...
A matter of justice: securing human rights in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda
Barely two years remain before the 2015 deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), yet it has become painfully clear that many of the targets set out in the MDGs will...
Time to make the financial sector accountable to human rights
10 December 2012 - Washington DC, New York, Johannesburg, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. A task force of human rights organizations and networks today launched a website devoted to highlighting the...
A world free from poverty: how long are we prepared to wait?
CESR Newsletter, October 2012 As the world marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, two questions arise: how long are we willing to go on tolerating the violence and injustice of...
Strengthening institutional protection of economic and social rights in Kenya
On December 12 Kenyans celebrated Jamhuri Day, a date which marks both Kenya’s independence from the United Kingdom in 1963 and its establishment as a republic a year later. As anniversaries often...
International Mission Focuses on Right to Food in Bolivia
CESR staff member Sally Anne Way took part in an international fact-finding mission to Bolivia in February to address the causes of hunger and malnutrition in the country and investigate the...
Niger + 2 more
Climate Change And Human Rights: Will Cancun Deliver?
Climate change has the potential to exacerbate existing incompliance with economic, social and cultural rights because many countries that are most vulnerable to climate change are ones with weak...
Haiti, one month on: rethinking the model
"You get up in the morning and it's the fight for food and wood and water." This is how a young widow, mother of four children, describes the struggle of everyday life in Haiti. She was speaking...
Sin una política fiscal progresiva, el Estado guatemalteco viola sistemáticamente los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales de la ciudadanía
El estudio "¿Derechos o privilegios? El compromiso fiscal con la salud, educación y la alimentación en Guatemala", elaborado por el Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (ICEFI) y el Center...
¿Derechos o privilegios? El compromiso fiscal con la salud, educación y la alimentación en Guatemala
RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Introducción En las últimas décadas del siglo XX, Guatemala concentró la atención de la comunidad internacional debido a las violaciones masivas y sistemáticas de derechos humanos...
Guatemalan state systematically violates economic and social rights of citizens, international human rights report says
MADRID and GUATEMALA CITY--By failing to implement a fair and progressive tax policy, the Guatemalan state systematically violates the economic and social rights of its citizens, according to the...
Angola factsheet: Visualizing rights
Making Human Rights Accountability More Graphic This fact sheet focuses on economic and social rights in Angola. In light of Angola's appearance before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and...
Kenya factsheet: Visualizing rights
Making Human Rights Accountability More Graphic This fact sheet focuses on economic and social rights in Kenya. In light of Kenya's appearance in November 2008 before the UN Committee on Economic,...
oPt + 1 more
Thirsting for Justice: Israeli violations of the human right to water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Executive Summary The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories has long been recognized as the root cause of the violation of Palestinians’ civil, political, economic, social and cultural...
Water under siege in Iraq: US/UK military forces risk committing war crimes by depriving civilians of safe water
About the Center for Economic and Social Rights The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), based in New York, is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social...