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We are the Global Initiative for Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights

We believe human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and inalienable, and that they are shaped by law and social relations.

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GI-ESCR 2022-2025 STRATEGIC PLAN

This strategy document describes GI-ESCR ‘s organisational goals for the next four years and how we intend to reach them. Its priorities will continue to be relevant beyond 2025 and will provide the scaffolding for our work in the decade ahead.

Our strategic plan for the period 2022 to 2025 is bold, grounded in the work we do with and for others, flexible, and based on evidence and shared learning.

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who We Are

GI-ESCR is a non-governmental organisation that believes transformative change to end endemic problems of social and economic injustice is possible only through a human rights lens.

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Where we have worked

We work with partners, globally and locally, to tackle social and economic injustice through a human rights lens.

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How we work

We work with partners to tackling the endemic problems of social and economic injustice through a human rights lens.


Our Focus Areas

We advocate for the importance and universality of ESC rights through quality research and compelling legal arguments that strengthen the ESC rights framework.

With partners GI-ESCR researches and responds to the negative effects of privatisation in social services through a human rights lens.

In international spaces GI-ESCR raises the visibility and understanding of the impacts of climate change on economic, social and cultural rights.

We research the risks and opportunities that the transition to renewable energy presentes for women’s rights and we advocate for States to advance a gender-just transition to low carbon societies.

GI-ESCR advances standards and the implementation of women’s economic, social and cultural rights.