Economic social and cultural rights

There are two basic theoretical approaches to documenting human rights violations: the events approach and the indicators approach. This excellent paper gives and excellent overview both and is a good starting point if you want to monitor ESC rights. Rajeev Malhotra, M. and Fasel, N., 2005. - [Read more]

A good place to start. Introduces the basic concepts (such as : what is an obligation in international law?) in a clear style with lots of nice examples. Amnesty. 2006. - [Read more]

HURIDOCS offers a series of manuals, developed with the AAAS, on economic, social and cultural rights. These manuals include a thesaurus of such rights, and thematic manuals on food, labor (labour), and health. - [Read more]

Nice collection of articles on indicators for monitoring ESC rights. - [Read more]

Circle of Rights-Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource is about the substance of ESC rights and about strategies and tools that can be used to protect and promote them. by IHRIP and Forum-Asia. In English, French, Spanish, Arabic. - [Read more]

A portal for economic, social and cultural rights: a directory of organisations, a database where they can list projects and activities, mailing lists, a case law collection, a calendar of events. - [Read more]

Amnesty_USA has a good section on ESCR which should give some ideas on how to advocate in this area. Don't miss their Primer on ESC rights - see bottom of the page. - [Read more]

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its States parties. - [Read more]

CHOIKE has a very nice section on Economic, social and cultural rights. Sub-sections on labour, trade, MDGs, gender, health, food. Very up-to-date. - [Read more]

Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder.org, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. This will really inspire you on how how to use indicators and data to communicate powerfully about human rights issues. - [Read more]