What we do
GI-ESCR works to ensure that human rights frameworks and institutions are capable of effectively responding to contemporary economic, social and cultural rights injustices. We support national and local rights advocates to leverage the human rights system to fight social, economic and climate injustice and press for safe and accessible spaces in which civil society can engage with human rights monitoring and accountability bodies. We also disseminate the activities of United Nations human rights institutions and work alongside partners to ensure that these institutions remain strong, credible and sufficiently resourced to discharge their important mandates.
Updates from Geneva
As part of our work to strengthen human rights mechanisms, GI-ESCR publishes regular updates on the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the economic, social and cultural rights initiatives of the Human Rights Council.
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The Committee on Economic, Social and cultural Rights
GI-ESCR regularly engages with the work of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), an expert human rights Treaty Body that is mandated to monitor the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Access GI-ESCR’s resources, analysis and tools:
The Human Rights Council
GI-ESCR closely follows the economic, social and cultural rights output of the United Nations Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body with the responsibility to promote and protect all human rights. Access GI-ESCR’s:
the UN Human Rights treaty body system
GI-ESCR works with civil society partners to strengthen the functioning of the wider UN Human Rights Treaty Body system. Visit our Strengthening the UN Treaty Body system page for information on: