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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 3d

This World Teachers’ Day we insist: financing public education and ensuring adequate salaries for teachers is a legal duty and a direct path to closing the gap between children who learn and children left behind.

Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 3d

States have binding obligations to use maximum available resources for education. Underfunding and cuts are not neutral choices. They perpetuate inequality and breach human rights.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 3d

Financing is decisive. In many systems, more than 90% of education budgets go to paying personnel. When teachers are underpaid, quality collapses and inequality in learning outcomes grows.

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States' Human Rights Obligations to Finance Public Services: A Focus on Education and Health

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 3d

Across regions the pattern repeats. Without fair investment, schools lack budgets, teachers leave public service, and even basic tools like pens or blackboards are missing. The result is inequality entrenched from the classroom onwards.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 3d

In Mathare, Nairobi, wards like Mabatini and Ngei have no public schools. Families rely on low-fee private schools with uncertified teachers, overcrowded classes and unsafe conditions. This leaves the poorest children furthest behind.

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‘Build Us More Schools!’ - The Quest for Quality Free Education in Mabatini and Ngei Wards of Mathare, Nairobi

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 3d

On World Teachers’ Day we highlight what happens when education is left underfunded. Teachers’ salaries are central to quality, and without fair financing inequality deepens and children are denied their right to learn.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

The result: policies that deepen social and economic inequality, with no accountability for their human rights impacts.️⚖️

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

As a specialised UN agency, the World Bank should integrate human rights into its analyses. Yet its frameworks and practices still put economic priorities and creditor interests first. 💰

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

Our demands:

🔹 Investigate IFC’s healthcare portfolio
🔹 Freeze or divest from abusive clients
🔹 Halt new funding to for-profit providers
🔹 Set real standards on financial intermediary lending
🔹 Ensure remedy for victims

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

Two decades into the World Bank’s IFC push to channel healthcare through private businesses, the legacy is clear: inequality, abuse and secrecy. Rather than strengthening public services, these investments have widened the divide.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

We expose:

🔹 Patients detained and denied emergency care
🔹 Unsafe, profit-driven interventions
🔹 Exploited workers silenced and harassed
🔹 Funding to elite hospitals beyond people’s reach
🔹 No transparency, no remedy, no safeguards

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

Across IFC-funded hospital wards, evidence shows patients denied care, workers exploited and rights ignored. We’re demanding accountability and a shift towards financing public health systems. ⚖️

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 7d

We’ve signed a letter with 59 organisations and individuals calling out the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, for putting profit before patients. 🏥💰

More: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

CSO's Call Out the IFC on the Lack of Accountability in its Healthcare Investments

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 16d

📚 This report complements the analysis to be presented in the upcoming report ‘No Just Transition without Gender Justice: Recommendations for International Partnerships’, produced jointly with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (@fesonline.bsky.social) and @unrisd.org.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 16d

The report broadens the understanding of just transition, which can often reflect Global North perspectives, highlighting grounded experiences from the Global South, translating them into practical insights for policy and practice. 🌍

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 16d

The report proposes a gender-transformative approach and introduces analytical tools to evaluate and strengthen just transition initiatives. 🛠️ These tools serve as a guide to improve existing frameworks and ensure future policies deliver more socially just outcomes.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 16d

📑 New Publication

'Ensuring Justice in Transition: A Gender-Transformative Approach', published jointly with @unrisd.org, provides a global overview of just transition policies and examines what is needed to ensure they advance gender justice.

Get it here: www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 29d

Hoy conmemoramos el Día Nacional de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia. 🇨🇴

La Defensoría del Pueblo invita este jueves a un espacio de reflexión con especialistas para conversar sobre igualdad, paz y naturaleza. 🗣️🌍

🔗 Inscripciones: forms.gle/R8PS1rMopgmh...

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · 29d

Hoy conmemoramos el Día Nacional de los Derechos Humanos en Colombia. 🇨🇴

La Defensoría del Pueblo invita este jueves a un espacio de reflexión con especialistas para conversar sobre igualdad, paz y naturaleza. 🗣️🌍

🔗 Inscripciones: forms.gle/R8PS1rMopgmh...

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Sep 3

💡 These commitments can only be realised through strong, well-financed public systems that foster Education as a right and a public good.

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Sep 3

The intervention sought to ensure:

🔹 The explicit recognition of early childhood care and education
🔹 At least one year of free public pre-primary education
🔹 Free public secondary education for all

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fostering strong education systems is crucial to achieve a care society. 🤝🌍

📢 Our Programme Officer on the Right to Education, Juana Barragán, advocated for free public education during the working group discussions on a 4th Optional Protocol to the CRC.

📺 Watch it here: youtu.be/3SriToO4qLY

Free Public Education in the Discussions on a 4th Optional Protocol to the CRC

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Sep 3

🔗 Read our full report here: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

First and Second Substantive negotiating sessions of the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights @giescr.bsky.social · Sep 3

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