2024-11-15T14:27:34-05:00 2023-12-31 205907840 Ketcham & Associates LLC 202 Mountain Avenue Westfield NJ 07090 990 2023-01-01 364818453 ESCR-NET INTERNATIONAL ESCR 370 Lexington Ave STE 607 New York NY 10017 CHRIS GROVE Executive Direc 9082324618 2024-05-14 true true Steven Ketcham CPA P01439801 9082324618 2024-11-15 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Chris Grove 370 Lexington Ave 700 New York NY 10017 1048105 false X https://www.escr-net.org X 2016 NY See Schedule O 7 7 12 7 0 0 2006905 1015000 0 6640 33105 0 2013545 1048105 0 0 1318420 1415830 0 76413 722592 995849 2041012 2411679 -27467 -1363574 4304797 2892250 100912 51939 4203885 2840311 See Schedule O false false 1985587 1048105 The Organization seeks to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.1. Led by grassroots women leaders and social movements, members elevated red-line issues a gender-responsive approach, Indigenous Peoples rights, corporate capture, conflict, human rights defenders ensuring that negotiations for the UN Human Rights Council treaty on business and human rights addressed the rights of affected communities and their demands for justice. Several States ultimately referenced specific points from ESCR-Nets collective position.2. Fortifying a human rights-based approach to data, the Monitoring Working Group developed draft principles of good data focused on issues of representativeness, participation, accessibility, security and privacy, and relevance to ESCR. Collective advocacy amplified these principles with UN treaty bodies and the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, elevating the experience , analysis, and participation of affected communities in decision-making processes. 3. Advocacy actions and workshops, co-organized with the Endorois Welfare Council and fellow members over several years, have supported the growing leadership of Endorois women in advancing implementation of the African Commission decision calling for land restitution. In May 2019, three Endorois women were elected to the Board of the Endorois Welfare Council, demonstrating how womens participation in land struggles can strengthen substantive equality, transforming the movement itself. 4. Building on the depth and diversity of many members advocacy at the intersection of human rights and climate change, ESCR-Net officially launched a network-wide project on ESCR and the environment, prioritizing climate justice. Members centered climate issues in diverse cross-network initiatives and played a key role on the task force for the Peoples Summit on Climate, Rights and Human Survival in New York City. 5. ESCR-Net members around the world mobilized in solidarity with fellow human rights defenders and allies, including in Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Colombia, carrying out advocacy actions and sending collective letters to denounce repression, violence, and impunity rooted in corporate abuses and capture of governmental decision-making and institutions. 6. Organized women workers and grassroots groups mobilized an online May Day campaign, utilizing a mass Twitter action, collective statement, and related advocacy actions to amplify their calls for States to adopt, ratify, and implement the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention to eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work. ILO Convention 190 and Recommendation 206 were adopted in June 2019. 7. At an economic policy workshop in Chiapas, ESCR-Net members half of whom were social movements advanced shared analysis of systemic injustices, including climate change and corporate capture, that is propelling advocacy for alternatives to the dominant model of development and informing popular political education grounded in movement-led analysis and human rights. 8. Grassroots labor leaders used a security and protection workshop at the Women and Work strategy meeting in Mexico to advance community-led strategies for preventing threats and addressing attacks specific to women human rights defenders in the context of work. 9. Members submitted a collective amicus brief before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) in an indigenous rights case in Argentina (Lhaka Honhat vs. Argentina), focusing on free, prior and informed consent, as well as the rights to water, food, cultural identity, and a healthy environment, contributing to a precedent-setting decision recognizing these rights. 10. Women from different regions and land struggles built a collective position on land, corporate capture, and climate change at an intergenerational exchange for grassroots women leaders in Chiang Mai. Leaders presented this analysis at the Day of General Discussion on the UN Committee on ESCR draft General Comment on land, where it resonated powerfully. 11. Litigators, advocates, campaigners and movement leaders joined forces at a strategic litigation workshop in Mongolia, strengthening argumentation in individual cases focused on the environment and corporate actors, situating litigation in wider advocacy strategies for structural change, and cultivating member-to-member collaborations. 1985587 true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 12 0 true 12 true false false false false false false false false false false false false X 7 7 false false false false false true true true true false false true true true true true true true true false NY X Greta Salazar de Villacis 2126811236 370 Lexington Ave 700 New York NY 10017 Chris Grove Executive Director 40.00 0.00 X 99950 0 0 Greta Salazar de Villacis Development Dir 40.00 0.00 X 86839 0 0 Maha Abdallah Board member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Debbie Stoddard Board member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Binota Moy Dhamai Board member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Christiana Saiti Louwa Board member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Irene Escorihuela Blasco Board member 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ryan Schlief Board Chair 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Juana Toledo Pascual Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 186789 0 0 0 false false false 1015000 1015000 33105 33105 1048105 0 0 33105 X 186789 158771 28018 906473 715839 135971 54663 266333 213066 39950 13317 56235 44989 8435 2811 1936 1936 20698 20698 107370 82180 25190 7339 7339 16735 16735 112452 89962 16868 5622 144474 144474 359555 359555 2235 2235 Bank charges 12926 12926 Dues licenses and fees 2184 2184 Translation and interpret 169012 169012 Programmatic expenses 2915 2915 36018 4824 31194 2411679 1985587 349679 76413 1658 8012 2448761 1703773 1853862 1170666 516 9799 4304797 2892250 100912 51939 100912 51939 X 4203885 2840311 4203885 2840311 4304797 2892250 -1363574 0 X false false false X 1300780 1376270 1376270 2006905 1015000 7075225 1300780 1376270 1376270 2006905 1015000 7075225 4894784 2180441 1798 1452 1452 6640 33105 44447 7119672 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED true North America Not the United States 5 Fund-raising activities Independent contract 170894 South America 2 Program services Conference 133533 Europe including Iceland and Greenland 19 Program services Independent contract 396793 East Asia and the Pacific 7 Program services Independent contract 78911 Middle East and North Africa 7 Program services Workshop 55256 Sub-Saharan Africa 3 Program services Workshop 304202 43 43 1139589 1139589 false false false false false false Member election for additional members Part VI line 7a Board members are elected by and from the membership. In addition, while the membership elects the Board Members to make decisions, there may be decisions that they can propose that would need to be put before the membership for consideration. Governing body decisions Part VI line 7b Board members are elected by and from the membership. In addition, while the membership elects the Board Members to make decisions, there may be decisions that they can propose that would need to be put before the membership for consideration. Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 The 990 and related files were sent to the Board for review and comment before submittal to respective agencies. Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c All board of directors and employees are immediately required to disclose any potential relationship that may give rise to a conflict of interest. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a The Board of Directors approves an aggregated salary expense line annually. The Board is aware of the amount of compensation of the Executive Director. Other officer or key employee compensation Part VI line 15b Compensation is set by the board of directors based on best practices and is reviewed annually. Form 990 availability to public Part VI line 18 The Organization makes available its governing documents and policies and procedures upon request. The 990 and related schedules is made available upon request and can also be found on Guidestar.com, which is a third party independent website that publishes certain nonprofit information. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 The Organization makes available its governing documents and policies and procedures upon request. The 990 and related schedules is made available upon request and can also be found on Guidestar.com, which is a third party independent website that publishes certain nonprofit information. Explanation of other changes in net assets or fund balances Part XI line 9 Change in opening net assets in the amount of $575,934 relates to change in accounting principle related to timing of revenues and assets. List of other fees for services expenses Part IX line 11g Consulting and contractor expense related to program, management and general and fundraising. General explanation attachment Form 990, Page 1, Part 1, Line 1 - (Organizations Mission)The Organization is a collaborative initiative of groups and individuals from around the world working to secure economic and social justice through human rights. ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen the field of all human rights, with a special focus on economic, social and cultural rights, and further develop the tools for achieving their promotion, protection and fulfillment. Through ESCR-Net, groups and individuals can exchange information, develop a collective voice, amplify their actions, develop new tools and strategies. By facilitating joint actions, enhancing communications and building solidarity across regions, the network seeks to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.