Rights-Based Economy
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No Transition Without Workers: labor must not be left behind in the fight for a just energy future
The blog argues that a truly “just transition” to a green economy must center workers’ rights, voices, and livelihoods, emphasizing that current approaches often exclude those most affected—especially in the Global South and informal sectors. It calls for stronger labor protections, public financing, and union-led policy frameworks to ensure the energy transition creates fair, secure, and dignified work rather than deepening inequality.
Centering human rights in critical minerals and advancing a Rights-Based just transition
This blog examines what a rights-based just transition looks like in practice with a focus on critical minerals and Africa's green industrialization.
CESR highlights need for rights-based economic governance in Brussels dialogue on FfD4
As momentum builds toward FfD4, CESR called for a rights-based transformation of the global financial system at a high-level UN event in Brussels.
Leading voices call for a new development, rights-centered approach to sovereign debt at paper series launch
Leading experts, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, called for urgent sovereign debt reform at the launch of the Sovereign Debt Working Paper Series, led by IEJ with contributions from CESR and Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center.
Protecting our common home and our shared humanity: Pope Francis’ legacy, the Jubilee and the way forward
As we enter the Jubilee year, we reflect on Pope Francis' unwavering advocacy for debt relief, tax justice, and a Rights-Based Economy.
States adopt UN resolution to further rights-enabling economic policies
The Human Rights Council’s new resolution on economic, social and cultural rights strengthens the link between human rights and fiscal policy
We welcome a new Director of Program and Program Manager to our team
We are thrilled to announce that Marianna Leite and Martha Hungwe have joined CESR.
Actualizing a Rights-Based Economy through synergies from alternative economic models
Students at the University of Essex’s Human Rights Centre Clinic dove deep this year into the Rights-Based Economy and its connection to other economic models.
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Pioneering Gender Equality in a Rights-Based Economy
On 19 June 2024, CESR hosted a fascinating roundtable discussion, examining how our vision for a Rights-Based Economy (RBE) can incorporate ideas from indigenous and feminist movements to fully realize economic and social rights. Relive it here.
CESR welcomes new report challenging GDP fixation and advocating for a Rights-Based Economy
We welcome the latest report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter
Breaking barriers, building bridges: pioneering gender equality in a Rights-Based Economy
Explore how a Rights-Based Economy can strengthen gender equality on June 19. Register now!
Reflecting on transformation and collective learning through a milestone workshop in Kenya
As we reach the end of a two-year project supported by the Ford Foundation, we held a reflection and learning workshop in Naivasha, Kenya.
Help us draw the blueprint for a Rights-Based Economy
We're starting a collaboration and learning process, with the aim to gather ideas, critiques, stories and proposals to bring to life the bold and ambitious vision of the Rights-Based Economy.
Are We Advancing Towards a Rights-Based Economy?: Outcomes of CESR’s mid-strategy review process
More activists and organizations are increasingly incorporating a human rights lens into their work, boosting efforts to transform the dominant economic system.
Time for a Rights-Based Economy (the inequality-based one isn’t working)
Human Rights Day message from our Executive Director, Ignacio Saiz
2021 Spotlight Report
Spotlight on Sustainable Development Report 2021 is the most comprehensive global civil society assessment of progress on the sustainable development agenda and the systemic obstacles it faces.
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Une Économie Basée sur les Droits: Dans des Périodes Critiques, une Feuille de Route pour l'Action
Nous ne nous sortirons pas de cette crise en relançant la «croissance économique», mais en transformant pour de bon notre système défaillant. Une économie foée sur les droits offre un plan de changement. info@cesr.org
A Rights-Based Economy: In Critical Times, a Roadmap for Action
We will not recover from this crisis by reviving "economic growth", but by transforming our broken system for good. A Rights-Based Economy offers a blueprint for change.
In Critical Times, a Roadmap for Action
Late last year, as part of our effort to tell this new story, CESR published A Rights-Based Economy: putting people and planet first with our partners Christian Aid. Today, we’re launching this short video summarizing some of the ideas in the report. We’re hoping to spark conversation about the economies we need and how we can use human rights to get there.
Webinar | Defining a new economics: what role for human rights?
On Monday, November 9th, CESR will be co-hosting a webinar with the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) and SECTION27 that asks: what role for human rights in defining a new economics?
Envisioning a rights-based economy: new report from CESR and Christian Aid
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) and Christian Aid are launching a new publication, A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first. It asks a radical question: what would it would look like if we had an economy based on human rights?
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A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first
What would it would look like if we had an economy based on human rights? CESR and Christian Aid explore this question in A Rights-Based Economy: Putting people and planet first.