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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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✨ 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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Inter-American Court Recognizes Care as a Human Right: A Victory for Feminist and Human Rights Movements
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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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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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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
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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
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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.
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🇹🇿 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.
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🇵🇸 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.
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🌏 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.
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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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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.
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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
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⚡ 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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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
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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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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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🔴 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.
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🚨🇸🇻 La defensora de derechos humanos Ruth López fue detenida arbitrariamente anoche en #ElSalvador. Estuvo incomunicada durante horas.

WOLA y otras organizaciones condenan su detención y exigen su liberación inmediata.

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El Salvador: organizaciones internacionales condenan la detención de la defensora de derechos humanos Ruth López - WOLA
Las organizaciones internacionales abajo firmantes condenan la detención de la defensora de derechos humanos Ruth López. La Policía Nacional de El Salvador la arrestó el 18 de mayo de 2025 a las 23:00...
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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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