This resource is a digest of information and experiences that seem particularly relevant and useful to local- and national-level economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) activism. It concentrates on various advocacy strategies and tools for ESC rights activism, limiting its theoretical or historical analyses to those issues which workshop participants mentioned as having a direct bearing on their present-day work.
Section I: Developing a Framework for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism initiates the exploration of national-level ESC rights activism, presenting reflections about a human rights framework and human rights approach and discussing in general terms the international human rights standards which relate to ESC rights.
Section II: Strategies and Tools for ESC Rights Activism stresses the need for a clear identification of issues and establishment of goals for work, and provides information about the thinking processes organisations have employed to identify and implement various strategies for ESC rights activism and what they have learned through doing so. The resource has attempted to focus on specific strategies and tools for activism, recognizing that, in practice, organisations typically use a combination of various advocacy strategies and tools in implementing specific programs.
The Appendices are a collection of resources which were offered by workshop participants or otherwise collated by IHRIP.
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