2024-10-28T10:54:53-04:00 2021-12-31 205907840 Ketcham & Associates LLC 202 Mountain Avenue Westfield NJ 07090 990 2021-01-01 364818453 ESCR-NET INTERNATIONAL ESCR 370 Lexington Ave STE 607 New York NY 10017 CHRIS GROVE Executive Direc 9082324618 2024-10-28 true Steven Ketcham CPA P01439801 9082324618 2024-10-28 2021 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X Chris Grove 370 Lexington Ave 607 New York NY 10017 2183012 false X https://www.escr-net.org X 2016 NY See Schedule O 7 7 8 7 0 0 1388621 2181958 0 1453 1054 0 1390074 2183012 0 0 976388 1113870 0 100655 420890 500411 1397278 1614281 -7204 568731 3747318 4337534 84698 106183 3662620 4231351 See Schedule O false false 1450851 2183012 The Organization seeks to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.1. With the leadership of grassroots women leaders, social movements, and Indigenous Peoples, members developed a collective position on loss and damage foregrounding Indigenous and wider human rights. Grounded in these demands, members advocacy at the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (November 2021) contributed to making loss and damage a substantial political discussion for the first time. 2. Diverse groups of ESCR-Net members were granted leave to collectively intervene in both the first (Duarte Agostinho v. Portugal, April 2021) and second (KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland, September 2021) climate change cases before the European Court of Human Rights. These collective amici support progressive jurisprudence that - in combination with advocacy and campaigning - can challenge both the inaction and culpability of governments and private actors in relation to the climate crisis and its devastating human rights impacts. 3. Centering resisting communities and Global South actors, members continued to play a leadership role in the global civil society coalition driving the Right to a Healthy Environment (R2HE) Campaign. Despite significant pressure from the US, UK, Brazil, and Russia, the resolution ultimately passed by a vote of 43 to 0 at the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council, constituting an important normative development for future advocacy (October 2021). 4. Members launched the first two editions of the comic series The Power of the 99% to Stop Corporate Capture and accompanying background notes, which tackle capture of the UN and healthcare. Allies and progressive media joined members in disseminating the comics widely, and these editions have been a key tool in popular political education efforts by movement members, a global rally for equitable vaccine access, and advocacy for regulation of corporate actors.5. The most recent text of the draft treaty to regulate corporate activity reflected demands in our collective position, including explicit references to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and climate change. Several States again pushed for progressive positions and language informed by members analysis and advocacy (October 2021). 6. In a collective open letter to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), members advanced calls to cancel and restructure debt of low- and middle-income countries, prioritize human rights and social protection, and model democratic governance. These common demands were a foundation for advocacy during the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings (April 2021), as well as a powerful parallel event on debt during the IMF Annual Meetings (October 2021). 7. Insisting that feminist alternatives need to be at the center of recovery efforts and projects for transformative structural change, members amplified collective analysis and demands for a new global social pact on care. This rallying call united members and allies across regions for the second Womens Global Strike (March 2021) and informed the intervention of a woman leader of member SOCRA, an Argentinean union, at the 69th session of the UN Committee on ESCR (February 2021).8. As key strengths of the community-led research project, members have highlighted both the power of defining their own research questions, designing methodologies, and gathering data, as well as the cultivation of horizontal spaces for exchange and learning that helped them to navigate challenges facing their projects and did not reproduce the top-down dynamics encountered in other research initiatives. 9. ESCR-Nets System of Solidarity (SOS) mobilized urgent action in solidarity with social movement members in South Africa and India, including collective letters to authorities to denounce ongoing attacks and criminalization while taking up the wider demands of the movements. The Network also issued a public statement in solidarity with member Al-Haq and five other human rights organizations designated as terrorist organizations (October 2021). 10. Members continued to prioritize efforts to strengthen member-to-member solidarity informed by the analysis and resistance of women human rights defenders (WHRDs), particularly grassroots women leaders. As one such initiative, the SOS Advisory Group collaborated with the Women and ESCR Working Group to survey 74 WHRDs among members and then hold a series of mutual learning exchanges, which were welcomed as unique and much-needed safe spaces by the WHRDSs who participated (June 2021, August 2021, September 2021).11. In bimonthly social movement dialogues, members are reassessing the evolving global conditions first identified in ESCR-Nets Common Charter for Collective Struggle yet intensified by the current pandemic and related responses, refining its analysis of the political economy of violence, critically assessing existing strategies, and laying the foundation for new advocacy/campaign agendas towards transformative change. 12. Reinforcing its jurisprudence recognizing the justiciability of ESCER, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a positive decision in the case Guachalá Chimb vs. Ecuador, in which members had presented an amicus (December 2020), finding intersectional discrimination based on disability and class, as well as violations of the right to health (March 2021). 13. Responding to COVID-19 and intersecting crises: As members outlined in ESCR-Nets Global Call to Action in response to Covid-19, the intersecting public health, economic, and social crises exacerbated by the pandemic are rooted in dominant systems that prioritize profit over people and planet, as well as intertwined structures of oppression - colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and systemic racism that were firmly entrenched long before March 2020. For the past couple years, ESCR-Net members, like innumerable people around the world, have been forced to navigate the fallout from this systemic dysfunction, grappling with loss of lives and livelihoods, buckling healthcare systems, and then, vaccine and treatment apartheid both between and within countries at the behest of narrow corporate interests. 14. Corporate capture of democratic institutions and processes is intrinsic to immense substantive inequalities, concentrating power, wealth, and even healthcare in the hands of the elite few. In the pandemic context, this has manifest as the success of corporate actors in maintaining ossified protections such as the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement to prevent the sharing of COVID-19 healthcare knowledge and technologies. In response, members used multi-pronged strategies to mobilize for a TRIPS waiver as essential to ending vaccine and treatment apartheid and, consequently, the pandemic. However, they simultaneously challenged the structural drivers that led to multifold crises, seeding the transformative changes related to debt, care, and public provision that are our best strategy for preventing another catastrophic pandemic. In this sense, members focus on vaccine and treatment equity did not constitute a new area of work, but rather, an extension of their long history of advocacy and campaigning against corporate capture and for the role of the State in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling ESCR, including via their extraterritorial obligations. This foundation, in combination with the shared demands outlined in the Global Call, served as a blueprint for collective work led by social movements and resisting communities over the course of 2021. 15. Members launched the second comic in the series The Power of the 99% to Stop Corporate Capture, which tackles vaccines and healthcare, unpacking how corporate capture has dismantled public healthcare systems and access to essential vaccines and medicines across the world over the past few decades and into this pandemic with devastating impacts on our rights to health and life, among others (September 2021). Demonstrating the efficacy and reach of the comics as a political education tool across struggles and regions, several members have been using and disseminating the comics and the accompanying briefing note in their movements and communities. In advance of the WTO Ministerial Conference scheduled for November 2021, members utilized the comic in a popular education workshop and rally involving over 200 members and allies, co-sponsored by allies Movement Law Lab, Mdecins Sans Frontires, and The Peoples Vaccine Alliance. In addition, regular litigation strategy calls, co-coordinated with Movement Law Lab, supported a series of targeted interventions. For example, an urgent appeal with extensive contributions from over 15 members from different regions pushed six UN Independent Experts and Special Rapporteurs to issue a statement in support of universal and equitable access to COVID vaccines and treatment (April 2021). This UN group subsequently sent 44 letters to States and corporations, which were then made public (October 2021), with Pfizer and several States compelled to respond to allegations. In addition, the language of two UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolutions put forward by Portugal, as well as Ecuador and the Non-Aligned Movement improved substantially at least in part due via interventions during the 46th session of the HRC and advocacy with these specific States (March 2021). Endorsed by nearly 100 organizations and individuals, our appeal to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination confronted structural racism within and between countries, targeting five countries on the grounds that they have failed to intervene in an inequitable and racially discriminatory rollout of the vaccine (October 2021). Members also launched or threatened litigation in key national jurisdictions resisting a TRIPS waiver to increase pressure and media attention. Along with substantial social media attention, mainstream media in different national and regional contexts have increasingly covered ongoing advocacy for vaccine equity. 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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. 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.