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Guatemala: Rights or Privileges?
Fiscal commitments and the rights to food, health and education in Guatemala (2009).
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Human Rights and the Economic Crisis
A new CESR briefing explores the human rights dimensions of the global economic crisis: its consequences, causes and responses.
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Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Crisis
A human rights analysis of government responses to the economic crisis
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Poverty and Human Rights: is poverty a violation of human rights?
Poverty is an assault on human dignity, but it can also reflect a violation of human rights when it is the direct consequence of government policy or is caused by the failure of governments to act.
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Guatemalan State systematically violates economic and social rights of citizens
New CESR study on health, education and food says fiscal and tax policy is largely responsible.
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The Right to Health in the United States
The US health care system falls short of international standards for the right to health (2004).
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Beyond Torture: US Violations of Occupation Law in Iraq
This report, from June 2004, presents ten categories of US violations of the laws of occupation.
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The Human Cost of War in Iraq
In January 2003, a CESR organized a research mission to Iraq to assess the likely humanitarian consequences of war.
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Iraq: Water under seige
From April 2003, this report examines the lack of safe water in Iraq caused by the war.
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Thirsting for Justice
This 2003 report exposes the ways in which Israel has taken complete control of shared Palestinian-Israeli water sources.
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Tearing up the Rules: The Illegality of Invading Iraq
In March 2003, CESR presented a comprehensive analysis of why a war against Iraq would be unequivocally illegal.
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Afghanistan: The Right to Food in Conflict
This report examines numerous violations to the right to food in Afghanistan, where the US-led war exacerbated and worsened the food situation drastically.
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Ghana: Privatization and Water Sector Reform in Ghana
CESR and its allies conducted a fact-finding mission to examine impacts of the privatization of water in Ghana.
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Human Rights and Reconstruction in Afghanistan
This report presents the findings of a human rights assessment mission to Afghanistan, undertaken in January 2002.
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Mining minerals: human rights critique on mining practices
Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Report, March 2003.
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Great Expectations, Bitter Realities
Economic Decline and Human Rights Abuse under the Oslo Process, 2001
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"Treated Like Slaves" Donna Karan, Inc. Violates Workers' Rights
This preliminary report examines violations of women workers' human rights in the Choe factories in New York City.
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The Price of Gold: Gold Mining & Human Rights in Honduras
2001 report on a CESR investigation to the current operation of the gold mining industry in Honduras since the passage of the General Mining Law in November 1998.
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The Right to Health in Ecuador
In 1999 CESR investigated the impact ofthe petroleum industry on the communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Economic and Social Rights Violations in Peru
This report focuses on the Inter-American Commission's role in promoting economic, social, and cultural rights in Peru.
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Sanctions Against Iraq: Costs of Failure
In 1997, CESR organized a fourth mission to Iraq to research a comprehensive report on the economic impact of sanctions.
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Rights Violations in the Ecuadorian Amazon: The Human Consequences of Oil Development
Rights Violations in the Ecuadorian Amazon: The Human Consequences of Oil Development is a 1994 report examining the role of the government of Ecuador and US oil companies in violating rights to health and a healthy environment.
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Health and Welfare in Iraq after the Gulf Crisis: An In-Depth Assessment
The findings of an 87-person international mission on the human rights impacts of the Gulf Crisis (1991).