Economic & Social Rights
New Meeting Report
The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy (December 2011)
Workshop Rapporteur and Writer: Alexandra Spieldoch
Editor: Savi Bisnath
This report is the culmination of a two-day experts meeting, “The Right to Food, Gender Equality and Economic Policy,” which took place on September 16-17, 2011 at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL). The meeting was organized as a means to contribute to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food’s work on gender equality, including a final report for the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2013. To this end, CWGL brought together economists, researchers and advocates, working from a feminist perspective on various aspects of the food system, to offer analysis and recommendations. |
Updates
- November 4, 2011: Huffington Post: Occupy Wall Street from a Human Rights Lens by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz
- June 2011: Maximum Available Resources & Human Rights: Analytical Report
- March 24, 2011: Call for UN Women to Design its Policy and Program on Women’s Economic Empowerment from an Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Framework
- November 18, 2010: CSW 2011 Submission: Civil Society Organizations Call on UN Women to Prioritize Economic and Social Rights
- October 28, 2010: ELECTION 2010: We Need A Stimulus Package that Includes Women and Builds Human Capital, by Natalia Cardona, Program Director
- August 31, 2010: US Human Rights Report’s Focus on More Perfect Union Leads to Imperfect Reporting on the Human Rights Situation in the United States
- July 12, 2010: Corporate Control of Our Democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz, The Huffington Post
- June 15, 2010: List of all 24 coalition reports coordinated by the US Human Rights Network and submitted to the United Nations in April 2010
- April 2010: Making the International Monetary Fund Accountable to Human Rights by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz, The Huffington Post
- March 2010: Why Human Rights are Indispensable to Financial Regulation by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz, The Huffington Post
- March 2010: New Joint Report: Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Crisis: A human rights analysis of government responses to the economic crisis
- February 5, 2010: Civil Society Open Letter to WTO Director General, Pascal Lemy: The impact of trade liberalization on the realization of human rights
CWGL Briefs
NEXUS: Shaping Feminist Visions in the 21st Century
Making Macroeconomics Work for US: A Feminist Perspective
As the world experiences increasing inequalities and gaps between and within countries, women’s rights organizations are working to challenge current hegemonic systems and develop alternatives for change. Building on feminist economic analyses, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) is undertaking the production of periodic briefs - Nexus: Shaping Feminist Visions in the 21st Century - to enhance women’s leadership for the realization of human rights. The briefs aim to both engender analytical and practical approaches to human rights in general, and economic and social rights in particular, as well as strengthen the capacity of feminist and social justice movements.
Brief Number 1 - "Making Macroeconomics Work For US: A Feminist Perspective" - highlights linkages between macroeconomics and human rights in order to better inform discussions about solutions to the current economic crisis in the United States.
Publications by executive director, Radhika Balakrishnan
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D., Economic Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account, Zed Books (2011)
- “Financial Regulation, Capabilities and Human Rights in the US Financial Crisis: The Case of Housing”, coauthored with Diane Elson and James Heintz, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 12:1, 153‐168, 2011
- Balakrishnan, R., Heintz, J., and Seguino, S. A Human Rights Response to the Economic Crisis in the U.S. (2009)
- Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective: Why MES with Human Rights II (Spanish Translation: Repensando Estrategias Macroeconómicas desde una Perspectiva de Derechos Humanos: Por qué EME y Derechos Humanos II) (2009)
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. The Economic Crisis is a Human Rights Issue (2008)
- Balakrishnan, R. & Elson, D. Auditing Economic Policy in the Light of Obligations on Economic and Social Rights (2008)
- Why MES with Human Rights? Integrating Macro Economic Strategies with Human Rights (Spanish Translation: ¿Por qué EME y DERECHOS HUMANOS? Integración de Estrategias Macro Económicas (EME) con Derechos Humanos) (2005)
Resources
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