🌍 Santa Marta pushed the fossil fuel phase-out debate beyond the limits of recent UN climate talks. Now that momentum has to be maintained and also reach multilateral spaces. 🔗 Read our full analysis: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

📘 El nuevo policy brief de @giescr.bsky.social, “Cuidado como derecho humano y bien público”, se basa en 10 iniciativas de América Latina y el Caribe para mostrar cómo las políticas de cuidado pueden avanzar derechos, igualdad y responsabilidad pública. 🔗 Más: gi-escr.org/es/recursos/...

📘 @giescr.bsky.social’s new policy brief, 'Care as a Human Right and a Public Good', draws on 10 initiatives across Latin America & the Caribbean to show how care policies can advance rights, equality & public responsibility. 🔗 Read more: gi-escr.org/en/resources...

@ICJ_CJI has spoken. The #UNGA resolution led by @VanuatuUN turns the ruling into action for international law and #ClimateJustice. Nearly 400K people worldwide and 75+ civil society organisations are calling for States to co-sponsor it. 🔗 Sign up: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Health, education, care, housing, social protection and climate action all depend on how public resources are raised, allocated and used. A new resolution by the Inter-American Commission on Human Right recognises this connection. 📘 🔗 Read it here: oas.org/en/iachr/dec...

As members of the Civil Society Advisory Council of the Regional Platform for Tax Cooperation for Latin America and the Caribbean (PT-LAC), we welcome the new roadmap to strengthen the Platform under its new pro tempore presidency. 🌎 🔗 Read it here: ptlacsocial.org/consejo-cons...

Together with other civil society organisations, we submitted a contribution to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Farida Shaheed, warning that rising debt burdens and IMF-linked austerity measures are undermining public education. 📝 🔗 gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

📅🇨🇴 From 24 to 29 April, we will be in Santa Marta, Colombia, for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels. After #COP30, a group of countries created this space to move beyond declarations and towards actual change. 🌍

En 2023 se lanzó el Fondo de Investigación-Acción Colaborativa para impulsar políticas y sistemas de #Cuidados en América Latina y el Caribe. 🌎

El Fondo de Investigación-Acción Colaborativa para impulsar las políticas y Sistemas de Cuidados en América Latina y el Caribe (Fondo 1) impulsa una agenda clara.

El Fondo de Investigación-Acción Colaborativa para impulsar las políticas y Sistemas de Cuidados en América Latina y el Caribe (Fondo 1) trabaja para reconocer el #Cuidado como infraestructura económica y social.

A deepening crisis of financing, legitimacy and impact is weakening multilateral cooperation. The global spaces where rules are defined and contested are being reconfigured in ways that can deepen corporate capture and reduce democratic scrutiny. 🌍

El Fondo de Investigación-Acción Colaborativa para impulsar las políticas y Sistemas de Cuidados en América Latina y el Caribe (Fondo 1) trabaja para reconocer el #Cuidado como infraestructura económica y social.

El Fondo de Investigación-Acción Colaborativa para impulsar las políticas y Sistemas de Cuidados en América Latina y el Caribe (Fondo 1) trabaja para reconocer el #Cuidado como infraestructura económica y social.

Access to rights depends on how public resources are raised and used. 📊

Rules matter because they shape how public services are organised, how resources are raised and how energy systems evolve. 🏢

What could it take to move the Belém Action Mechanism from proposal to practice in a way that is feminist, rights-based and built for real implementation? 🌍

As public systems struggle to meet social demands, trust in democratic governance declines and the social contract weakens.

Following Kenya’s 2026 review, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued Concluding Observations that connect debt, taxation and fiscal policy to the condition of public education, healthcare and other essential services. 🇰🇪 gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has issued its Concluding Observations on Kenya following the country’s 2026 review under the Covenant. 🇰🇪

Public services do not weaken by accident. They weaken when fiscal choices limit investment in education and health. 📉

In its concluding observations on Ghana, the Committee on the Rights of the Child echoed concerns about declining public spending on children’s policies, the pressure of debt servicing, challenges in education and gaps in healthcare provision. ⚖️ 🔗 Read: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

Questions are growing about the #UN80 reform process. This webinar looks at what these changes could mean for NGOs and #HumanRights defenders engaging with #UN human rights mechanisms at the national and regional levels. 🌐 🔗 Registration: crm.ishr.ch/civicrm/even...

At #CSW70, in 'Access to Justice and Care Work: Advancing Care as a Human Right - From Latin America to a Global Movement', our Executive Director, Camila Barretto Maia, shared why #Care must be at the centre of struggles for justice, equality and structural transformation. 💬

At #CSW70, we’ll be part of a series of conversations placing #care, justice, multilateralism and climate at the centre of feminist advocacy. 🌍

#Care has to be at the centre of climate justice. ⚖️ As part of this #CSW70 side event, we’ll be joining researchers, policymakers and grassroots voices to discuss why stronger care systems matter for access to justice in a just transition.

#Care is still too often treated as an invisible private burden instead of a shared public responsibility. Across regions, austerity, privatisation and underfunding continue to shape who gives care, under what conditions and at what cost. ⚖️ 🔗 Register: world-psi.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#Care is still too often treated as an invisible private burden instead of a shared public responsibility. Across regions, austerity, privatisation and underfunding continue to shape who gives care, under what conditions and at what cost. ⚖️ 🔗 Register: world-psi.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

En el marco de #CSW70, participaremos en “Feminismos, Multilateralismo y Futuros Posibles: Diálogos desde América Latina y el Caribe en un Mundo en Reconfiguración”. 📅 Jueves 12 de marzo 🕓 4 PM 📌 Edificio ONU Mujeres, Piso 17 📝 Registro: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On #InternationalWomensDay, we reaffirm the importance of substantive gender equality in every sphere of life, including in the transformation of our climate and energy systems. 🌍 Transitions must be grounded in #HumanRights.

On 11 March, our Executive Director will join partners and policymakers in NY for a side event examining how recognising care as a human right can transform the social organisation of care and expand access to justice for women and girls. 🌍 🔗 Register: www.unrisd.org/en/activitie...

At the People Dialogue Festival, this session brings together civil society, institutions and communities to reflect on how public debt, devolution and accountability influence access to rights in practice. 🌍

Kenya’s 2026 Budget Policy Statement (BPS) shapes how public resources influence access to quality, inclusive #Education, and therefore how fairly the system functions across the country. 📚

The Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued its Concluding Observations on Colombia, including recommendations that address concerns we raised in a joint submission with partner organisations. 📚🇨🇴 🔗 Read more here: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

Junto con organizaciones aliadas, estamos coorganizando este webinar para impulsar la justicia fiscal como condición para la justicia climática y ambiental. ⚖️ 🔗 Regístrate aquí: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Together with partner organisations, we are co-organising this webinar to promote fiscal justice as a condition for climate and environmental justice. ⚖️ 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On this #WorldDayOfSocialJustice, we reflect on unequal access to education and the responsibility of states to guarantee it for all. 🌍 Ten years into the Public Education and Human Rights Coalition's journey, there are reasons for optimism. 🌱

Junto con organizaciones aliadas, estamos coorganizando este webinar para impulsar la justicia fiscal como condición para la justicia climática y ambiental. ⚖️ 🔗 Regístrate aquí: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Together with partner organisations, we are co-organising this webinar to promote fiscal justice as a condition for climate and environmental justice. ⚖️ 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today marks the 7th anniversary of the Abidjan Principles! 🎉 Education is a #HumanRight. States must respect, protect, and fulfil the right to education of everyone. 📹 Explore examples of the #AbidjanPrinciples in practice here: www.abidjanprinciples.org

Chile has promulgated the ‘Chile Cuida’ law, creating the National System of Support and Care. #Care is now recognised as a social right and incorporated as a pillar of social protection, affirming social and gender co-responsibility as public policy. gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

Civil society organisations across the world are using the Abidjan Principles to strengthen the #RightToEducation for all.🌍🏫

At the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Roselyne Onyango, our Associate Programme Officer for Africa, delivered a joint statement together with the Kenya Human Rights Commission, Hakijamii and EACHRights. 🔗 Find the statement here: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

At the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, we delivered a joint civil society statement on how debt servicing and austerity-driven fiscal policies continue to undermine the rights to education and health in Kenya. 🇰🇪 📄 Read here: gi-escr.org/en/our-work/...

On International Day of Education, the obligation remains: fund and provide public education for all.

On International Day of Education, the obligation remains: fund and provide public education for all.

As #InternationalDayOfEducation approaches, we’re sharing our multi-country study on how fiscal choices shape the financing of public services. 🔗 You can access the publications in this series here: gi-escr.org/en/resources...

📚 Ahead of the #InternationalDayOfEducation, we invite you to join an online webinar tomorrow exploring the power of youth in co-creating education and the role of young people in shaping inclusive, relevant and future-ready learning systems in Kenya and across East Africa.

Ten years have passed since the formation of PEHRC, the Public Education and Human Rights Coalition. And the debate around privatisation in #Education continues to evolve. 🏫🌐