Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is a US-based, international non-governmental organisation that fights poverty and inequality by advancing human rights as guiding principles of social and economic justice. Working in collaboration with partners around the world, CESR uses international human rights law as a tool to challenge unjust economic policies that systematically undermine rights enjoyment and thereby fuel inequalities.

• Twitter: @social_rights

• Email: info@cesr.org

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Publications

• CESR (September 2023). ‘Decoding Debt Injustice: shed new light on how the global debt crisis impacts people’s rights.’ CESR

• CESR (August 2023). ‘CESR calls on the World Bank Group to shift its Cascade approach to a human rights and climate model.’ CESR

• CESR (July 2023). ‘Cartagena Summit: A new platform for fiscal cooperation is born.’CESR

• CESR (2022). 'Sovereign Debt & Human Rights’. CESR.

• Donald, K. (n.d.). ‘Women's rights and revenues: no gender equality without fiscal justice’. Centre for Economic and Social Rights. 

• Donald, K., Saiz, I., Chaparro, S., Corkery, A., Leite, M., Saracini, N., and Kohonen, M. (October 2020). ‘A rights-based economy: Putting people and planet first’. Christian Aid and Centre for Economic and Social Rights.

• Video: ‘Taxation for Redistributive justice: solutions for women, the people, and the planet’. Women’s Working Group on Financing for Development (feat. Kate Donald). (1 July 2020).

• Chaparro, S., and Mamberti, M.E. (16 Nov, 2020). ‘Fiscal justice and human rights: strengthening collective counterpower for a transformative recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean.’ Center for Economic and Social Rights.

• Chapparo, S., and Adriaensens, L. (11 Sept, 2020). ‘A Marathon, Not a Sprint: Peru Needs Fiscal Reforms to Quell High COVID-19 Death Rate’. IPS (Inter Press Service)

• Saiz, I., and Donald, K. (7 November 2018). ‘Are Human Rights Relevant to Economic Inequality? A response through the lens of social protection’. Social Protection and Human Rights.

• Saiz, I., and Donald, K. (27 July 2017). ‘Tackling inequality through the Sustainable Development Goals: human rights in practice’. The International Journal of Human Rights, 21(8), 1029-1049, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1348696

Mahinour ElBadrawi

• Currently based in: New York City

• Publications and resources:

  • ElBadrawi, M. and Corkery, A. (2017). ‘Egypt’s new IMF deal comes with a huge price tag for human rights’. Bretton Woods Project.

  • ElBadrawi, M. ‘ESPI provides alternative to traditional economic indicators that ignore the disenfranchised’. Interview by Tax Justice Network for their Arabic Podcast. (1 Nov 2018). Centre for Economic and Social Rights.

Allison Corkery

• Currently based in: South Africa, Africa

• Other affiliations: Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity

• Email: acorkery@cesr.org 

• Publication and resources:

  • Corkery, A., and Isaacs, G. Human rights impact assessments and the politics of evidence in economic policymaking. The International Journal of Human Rights, 24(9), 1268-1289. DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2020.1804372 

  • Corkery, A., Chiriboga-Tejada, A., Ghosh, J., Moussa, D., and Falco. A. (29 Aug 2020). ‘Austerity is killing Ecuador. The IMF must help end this disaster.’ The Guardian.

  • Corkery, A., and Saiz, I. (n.d.). ‘What Place for Human Rights in the Growing Movement against Inequality?’. Center for Economic and Social Rights.