Executive Board Should Cancel Prize at October Meeting

Prize Honoring Equatorial Guinea Leader Should be Cancelled

UNESCO-Obiang Science Prize Funded by Suspect Money from Equatorial Guinea Leader.

Haitian human rights and development organizations are calling for a different vision of development aid in the aftermath of the earthquake.

Nov 09: New CESR study on health, education and food says fiscal and tax policy is largely responsible; report comes as Guatemalan Congress debates 2010 budget (English, Español)

Appointment comes at a time when the defense of economic, social and cultural rights is more crucial than ever because of the global economic crisis.

Despite becoming a high-income country, Equatorial Guinea has some of the worst economic and social rights indicators in sub-Saharan Africa, a new CESR analysis reveals (English, Spanish).

The current economic crisis is fast becoming a human rights crisis. CESR urges world leaders meeting in New York this week to seize the opportunity to place human rights principles, not profit, at the heart of crisis responses, economic policy and global economic governance.

CESR's statement at UNCTAD's Public Symposium on the global economic crisis and development stressed the need for a human rights framework.

New CESR Analysis of Bangladesh’s Economic and Social Rights Focuses on Children’s Rights to Food, Health, Education, Housing and Water

A New CESR Analysis Asks if Cambodia's Government Is Dedicating Maximum Available Resources to Realizing Economic and Social Rights