Center for Economic and Social Rights

International AffairsNew York, United States2-10 Employees

The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is focused on promoting social justice through the lens of human rights, particularly ensuring that education, health, food, water, housing, work, and other economic, social, and cultural rights are respected and fulfilled. It concentrates on holding governments and powerful actors accountable for policies that affect access to these rights, examining how factors like poverty and inequality arise from policy choices and urging respect for civil and political rights alongside economic and social rights. Based in an international affairs context, CESR engages with global challenges and collaborates with partners to advance rights-based approaches to development and financing, including advocacy around redistributive justice and human rights-centered financing for development. The organization operates with a small team and maintains activities worldwide, including participation in high-level forums and international conferences that address debt, development, and climate-related human rights implications, with recent work advancing the human right to care within Beijing+30 commitments.

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