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🇲🇽Priest Marcelo, a Tzotzil priest from Chiapas, Mexico, was a passionate defender of Mother Earth 🌍 and human rights. Dedicated to social justice and peacebuilding, he faced threats due to his work and had been granted precautionary protection by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since 2015.

His tragic murder on October 20 reflects the alarming rise in violence in Chiapas, putting human rights defenders and Indigenous communities at greater risk.
We demand that authorities in Mexico conduct a thorough investigation into this terrible crime, ensuring truth and justice for Father Marcelo. We also call on the Mexican State to address the situation in Chiapas from a human rights perspective, rebuilding communities ravaged by violence driven by private interests.

📢 We stand united against violence, in defense of Mother Earth and human rights.

🌍✨ On July 28, 2022, the UN General Assembly made history by recognizing the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment—a huge win for environmental and human rights advocates globally! 🙌

But the real challenge? Turning this into action.

Last September, ESCR-Net’s Environment & ESCR Working Group published a brief diving into the history of this right, what it means for communities facing the climate crisis, and the core principles and state obligations needed for real change.💡🌱

Our members are leading collective struggles for this right at national, regional, and international levels. Help us share and read the full brief in our bio! 🔗

✨From 16-20 September 2024, ESCR-Net more than 100 members convened for our pivotal Global Strategy Meeting (GSM) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Confronting the immense challenges of the past few years, we renewed bonds of solidarity and reinforced collective action to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.

📍Over five days, we worked to chart strategies for building a future rooted in justice, dignity, and care for people and the planet. This summit demonstrated the power of international solidarity in the face of multiple global crises. Check the blog in our bio that summarises the highlights of the summit.

People or profit? 💸

Activists and campaigners asked this question last month, raising concerns over corporate capture of global governance, during the Summit of the Future in New York. 🇺🇳

Read more about the Social Movements and Organizations’ Encounter organized in parallel with Summit and ESCR-Net members’ takeaways at the link in bio 🕊️🌎

🆘 : We stand in solidarity with the Garífuna people and as they face another brutal assault on their ancestral lands.

👉🏾Violent forces have once again targeted the Garífuna community in Nueva Armenia. Two community members were injured while defending their land. This is a clear violation of their human rights.

🇭🇳The Honduran government must end its aggression against the Garífuna people and respect their ancestral land rights.

Read our statement in our bio.

Share this post to raise awareness and demand justice for the Garífuna people.

ESPAÑOL ~~~~~

🆘 : Nos solidarizamos con el pueblo Garífuna ante otro brutal asalto a sus tierras ancestrales.

👉🏾Fuerzas violentas han vuelto a atacar a la comunidad Garífuna en Nueva Armenia. Dos miembros de la comunidad resultaron heridos mientras defendían sus tierras.

🇭🇳 El gobierno hondureño debe poner fin a su agresión contra el pueblo garífuna y respetar sus derechos ancestrales a la tierra.

Lee nuestra declaración en nuestra bio.

Comparte este post para crear conciencia y exigir justicia para el pueblo garífuna.

Nos sumamos al repudio por el as*****to del líder ambientalista Juan López por oponerse al extractivismo y llamamos a la con las personas defensoras que, como en , son criminalizadas por su lucha por la vida en sus territorios.

¡Exigimos justicia para Juan!

El COPINH repudia el vil as*****to de nuestro compañero y hermano Juan López, líder de la defensa del territorio en la zona de Tocoa, Colón.

Juan fue asesinado por su labor en defensa del río Guapinol en contra de la Minera Los Pinares Ecotek de Lenir Pérez y sus mafias locales. Juan fue asesinado días después de pedir la renuncia del alcalde de Tocoa, Adán Fúnez por sus vinculaciones con el narcotráfico.

El Estado y gobierno de Xiomara Castro de Honduras son responsables de este nuevo as*****to por no garantizar la vida de Juan quien contaba con medidas cautelares de la CIDH.

Juan será recordado como un líder auténtico y destacado del pueblo hondureño, como un pensador profundo y un guía espiritual. Su palabra certera y oportuna nos acompañará por siempre.

Levantamos la bandera de la justicia para Juan y por la defensa del Río Guapinol y del pueblo del Aguán.

Nuestra solidaridad y acompañamiento para su familia y compañeros y compañeras.

🌍Designed by , our new logo challenges the dominant worldview rooted in capitalist, racist and patriarchal systems.

🌐 The innovative proposal draws inspiration from diverse cartographic projections of the world, ultimately proposing not just a single logo, but one that transforms. In this way, the new logo conveys both our collective power to shape the world and the diversity of perspectives within our Network

⚡️Our collaboration with studio Suite1317 has resulted in a fully redesigned, multilingual site with a clearer, more intuitive structure, and new features.

🗣️ We have completely revamped our website to better and more fluidly communicate the complexities of the issues we focus on, and the collective work our members lead globally.

👉🏽 has extended this dynamic vision to our new color palette and featured visual elements across all our platforms and communications.

💥We’ve rebranded! With the help of and Suite 1317, we’ve developed a new look for a just future. It reflects our collective strength in building alternative futures + enhances our ability to convey our mission of advancing human 🙌 and environmental rights 🌱.

The global debt crisis is worsening as countries struggle with interest payments amid harsh economic situations.

🇰🇪 In Kenya, debt conditionalities, austerity measures and the imposition of neoliberal policies by the IMF has drastically impacted people’s rights, including access to healthcare and education, leading to massive protests countrywide.

Through our letter of demands (link in bio) we call on the IMF to cancel debts for impoverished countries, and stop imposing unjust structural reforms, policies and laws that violate people’s rights in Kenya and globally. 🌎

🇰🇪 The people of Kenya put a stop to the unfair Finance Bill 2024. But the fight continues. We are appalled at the recent violent repression of protests in Kenya. The Kenyan government is considering austerity measures that threaten basic rights to housing, health, and education. This hurts the most vulnerable, especially women.

Brutal repression of peaceful protests is unacceptable and a grave violation of international human rights law. We call on the Kenyan government to:

1. Stop police brutality
2. Conduct independent investigations into killings, abductions & torture
3. Release all abducted protestors immediately
4. Engage in dialogue with civil society
4. Ensure security forces operate within the law & respect human rights
5. Protect Human Rights Defenders

Read the full statement in our bio.

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🤲FIRMA AQUÍ | La comunidad de Santa Rosa dos Pretos, en el Estado de Maranhão, en , se ha enfrentado a la denegación sistemática de su derecho a la educación, la atención sanitaria y la regularización de tierras.

✊🏿Hoy lanzamos junto a esta acción de solidaridad internacional.

🫂ÚNETE| para exigirle a los ministros y que convoquen una audiencia pública para escuchar a la comunidad.

‼️A pesar de sus lazos ancestrales con la tierra, que se remontan a más de 300 años, la comunidad se ha visto privada de títulos formales de propiedad, lo que ha impedido su capacidad para garantizar la tenencia y ha perpetuado la inseguridad y la vulnerabilidad.

🚨Además, los y las líderes de Santa Rosa dos Pretos sufren amenazas constantes, a los pobladores se les impide acceder a zonas de pesca y existen casos de criminalización de sus procesos de resistencia.

🚨TODAY | ESCR-Net members will address the to discuss issues such as loss and damage and ask the Court to rule on and States’ obligations to ensure human rights under the .

👉In 2023, Colombia and Chile submitted a request to asking for an advisory opinion “to clarify the scope of State obligations…to respond to the climate emergency”. In response, the Tribunal invited civil society and academia members to submit contributions, which are being presented this week in Barbados.

👥Ten ESCR-Net members are participating in the hearings sharing a series of demands and recommendations aimed at guiding future action. From incorporating gender perspectives to strengthening regulatory frameworks, these proposals offer a roadmap for addressing the climate crisis while safeguarding human rights.

📈🏦 As we gear up for the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), scheduled from April 15-21 in Washington DC, the conversation around crippling debt burdens is taking center stage.

💵These meetings bring together governments, multilateral and bilateral lenders, and various institutions to discuss the challenges facing the global financial architecture.

✊🏾🌎 However, amidst these discussions, a critical issue often overlooked by the mainstream is gaining momentum: the global movement advocating for debt cancellation, particularly for Global South countries.

💰In our last newsletter, we delved into the intersection of debt, corporate capture and climate, and provide with analysis, tools and resources to inspire action to confront the models imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and private creditors, which prioritize creditors’ profits and corporate interests at the expense of labor rights, environmental protection, democratic processes, and public spending to ensure human rights to healthcare, education, food and more.

🚨We also aim to challenge the dominant narrative propagated by economic and financial elites, who use convoluted language to obscure the injustices within the system.

Subscribe to our newsletter available in English, Spanish, Arabic and French at : https://escr-net.ink/newsletter

🟣🗣️Today were present at challenging power.

💵Transnational corporations exploit ideas of feminism and gender equality to improve their image in some countries, while systematically abusing women’s human rights in other parts of the world.

Feminists for a Binding Treaty is a coalition of over 30 human rights organizations that express concern that women’s empowerment, once a radical feminist idea of transforming society, has been manipulated and reduced to an individualistic focus on self-esteem, entrepreneurship, and consumerism.

🛑F4BT rejects the propaganda of “corporate feminism” and “corporate social responsibility”.

Beginning today and running through March 22, the annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) is the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment. This year, hundreds of activists, social leaders and gender advocates are gathering in New York to discuss how to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening gender-responsive institutions and financing.
All are welcome to attend our public events and participate in the programming in which our members are taking part.

🇧🇷 : En enero, reunimos a 40 lideresas y líderes de más de 25 movimientos sociales de toda América Latina, el Caribe, Asia y África en São Luís, Maranhão.

✊🏾 En medio de ataques contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos que tienden a quedar impunes y mientras la extrema derecha continúa ganando poder en , los siguen encabezando iniciativas para luchar por la justicia y la defensa de los derechos humanos.

🤲 Coorganizamos el evento con Justiça Nos Trilhos, miembro de la red y organización clave en la lucha contra el modelo de desarrollo extractivista en el estado de Maranhão.

🙌🏾¡Gracias, compas y miembros de Brasil! Y toda nuestra solidaridad con la comunidad de Santa Rosa dos Pretos por recibirnos y compartir su lucha.

¡Obrigado , São Luís!

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25 movimientos sociales se reúnen en Brasil para promover agendas comunes Reunión Regional de Movimientos Sociales, Enero de 2024 En un momento en el que los implacables ataques contra las personas defensoras de los derechos humanos a suelen enfrentarse a la impunidad y en el que la extrema derecha sigue aumentando su poder en América Latina, los movimientos sociales co...

✊🏾 In the midst of attacks against human rights defenders that tend to go unpunished and while the right-wing wing continues to grow in power in Latin America, social movements continue to spearhead initiatives to fight for justice and the defense of human rights.

🇧🇷 Last January, we brought together 40 leaders from more than 25 social movements from across Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa at our social movements meeting in Sao Luis, Brazil. We co-organized the event with Justiça Nos Trilhos, who are members of the network and have been a key organization in the struggle against the extractivist development model in the state of Maranhão.

Thank you, comrades and members in Brazil! And all our solidarity with the Santa Rosa dos Pretos community for receiving us and sharing their struggle with us.

🙌🏾¡Obrigado , São Luís!

🇰🇪| Since November 2, 2023, the Kenyan government has been carrying out forced evictions of the Ogiek Peoples, in the Mau Forest. At the same time, the government continues to deny the Endorois Peoples’ return to their ancestral home and reparations for their forced eviction recognized by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights after 14 years.

✊🏿🗓️ , in Nairobi, at 11 AM, more than 50 community representatives and activists will deliver letters to the Attorney General urging compliance with Kenya’s human rights obligations.

🚨They will deliver to the Attorney General of Kenya’s office in Nairobi two call-to-action letters demanding the government immediately implement the Commission and Court rulings to ensure justice and reparations for the Endorois and Ogiek Peoples.

🔗📩Find out the details of the letters in the link in our bio.

🔔 : HAPPENING NEXT TUESDAY 🔔
✊🏿 The repeated failure of the Kenyan government to implement the decision of the African Commission and Court in the Endorois and the Ogiek cases, respectively, deepens decades of inequality, violations, and neglect.

📆Next Tuesday, February 6th, more than 30 community representatives and activists will gather in Nairobi to take action against violations committed by the Kenyan government against the rights of ancestral communities.

🚨Despite strong judgments issued by international courts requiring the government to make reparations to the Ogiek and Endorois communities for forcibly displacing them from their lands in the pursuit of tourism and conservation projects, the Kenyan government persists in denying these communities the right to return to their ancestral homes and refuses reparations for their forced eviction.



“Kenia: Endorois and Ogiek Reparations Can’t Wait Longer”