People are going hungry in England because England, to the detriment of the poor, has forgotten its legal history. Nearly eight hundred years ago, in 1216 English law first recognized a right to food....

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, ...

Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said. In a letter to the prime minister, they welcome Keir Starmer’s joint statement last week with the leaders of France and Canada warning that they were prepared to take “concrete actions” against Israel. But they urge him to act without delay as “urgent and decisive action is required to avert the destruction of the Palestinian people of Gaza”. Continue reading...

Abstract. Children are systematically treated differently as political and legal subjects owing to their assumed weaknesses, incapacities, and special need

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 […]

Despite the growing popularity of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the UK, its proposed scope and relationship with the neoliberal political paradigm remain ambiguous and contested in academic and p...

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

The Special Rapporteur submits two thematic reports each year on the situation of human rights defenders. HRDs, civil society, States, businesses, intergovernmental organisations and others are invite...