Health
The right to physical and mental health is a fundamental human right, but millions of people worldwide have no access to basic healthcare services and cannot afford even the most basic medicines.
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Poverty, Policies & Economic Crisis
Poverty is not natural or inevitable, but an injustice fueled by human rights violations. The current global economic crisis has shown how politics and flawed policies exacerbate poverty, inequality and deprivation.
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Education
Millions of children never go to school or drop out early, leaving them illiterate and innumerate, condemned to a life of poverty and insecurity. Ensuring their right to education helps give these children a chance.
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A new frontier in economic and social rights advocacy?
Developing rigorous monitoring tools has been an uphill battle for those working on advancing economic and social rights. CESR offers a contribution to that ongoing work with this new publication.
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Child Malnourishment Increases, Access to Water Declines in Bangladesh
New CESR Analysis of Bangladesh’s Economic and Social Rights Focuses on Children’s Rights to Food, Health, Education, Housing and Water
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Human Rights and Economic Crisis: A Transformative Moment?
At the start of the UN General Assembly's conference on the economic crisis, CESR urges world leaders to sieze the opportunity to put human rights at the centre of its global responses.
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Wiwa v Shell settlement just one small step toward ending corporate impunity
Shell's pay-out in the Ogoni case has been rightly hailed as a victory, but leaves impunity for oil-related human rights violations unresolved.
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Bangladesh questioned on respect, protection and fulfillment of children's rights
Bangladesh appeared before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on June 3, 2009
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