Initiative for Social and Economic Rights

Media Training on Maternal Health Violations in Healthcare Settings
2025-03-11 08:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Kampala)
Date: 11th March 2025

Multi stakeholder dialogue: Centering safeguards in Uganda digital transformation
2025-03-06 08:00 - 17:00
Date: 6th March 2025

Civil Society Capacity-Building Workshop on Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Human Rights
2025-03-05 08:00 - 17:00
5th March 2025

WEBINAR: Digital Governance:Who Gets Counted?
2025-02-20 08:00 - 17:00
The Webinar will explore how digital ID systems in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda are shaping access to services & what this means for human rights.
REGISTRATION: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CmdXmWpWRRKZtaHHNDzixw

10th Annual National Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ESCRs) Conference
2023-09-14 | Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
The 10th Annual ESCR Conference will focus on human capital development, particularly the cost of education during the span of the current National Development Plan (III). It aims to serve as a platform for stakeholders countrywide to reflect on the cost of education and its broad implications on the realization of the NDP III targets under the sector.
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Regional Conference -The Africa We Want: Reclaiming Public Services in Africa
2023-08-29 - 2023-08-31
The Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) in partnership with the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) of the Center for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria will host the conference whose theme draws inspiration from the recent General Comment No 7 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights which acknowledges African states primary obligation to provide public services for their people and provides a framework to regulate private actors.
This conference aims to bring together a diverse range of human rights advocates, civil society actors, academics, practitioners, community members, and policymakers. Together, we will explore the need to reclaim public services in Africa and the impact of commercialisation and privatisation on social services, including, their profound implications on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly, health, education, water, and electricity, among others.
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Online: Livestream on Zoom & Youtube. Register at https://tinyurl.com/uuztdnkr

Our Future is Public Conference: From Global Inequalities to Social, Economic & Climate Justice
2022-11-29 - 2022-12-02 | Santiago, Chile, Santiago, Chile
As part of a broader campaign “Our Future is Public“, social movements, politicians, trade unions and civil society organisations from all over the world will gather in Santiago, Chile, for a 4-day Conference aiming at developing strategies and narratives to strengthen public services for the realization of economic, social and cultural rights and tackle the effects of climate change.

The Conference builds upon prior events that culminated in the Global Manifesto on Public Services entitled our Future is Public.
The Our Future is Public Conference aims at raising public consciousness and building political momentum regarding the importance of robust and innovative public services for guaranteeing human rights and facing the challenges of the 21st century. In addition to this, it represents an opportunity to build and reinforce collaboration between actors and movements to strengthen public services, develop common narratives on critical issues and decide on joint sectoral and cross-sectoral strategies.
The Conference has four cross cutting themes:

Economic, tax and debt justice and financing universal public services
Climate justice, food justice, decolonisation, Indigenous Peoples Rights and just transitions;
Feminist alternatives and gender-transformative care services; and
Democratic ownership, community collaborations and reimagining government.

It also has sectoral discussions on education, health, water, transportation, energy, waste, care, economic justice and social protection, food systems and agriculture, housing. The outcomes of the sectoral discussions will feed the cross sectors.

The organisation of the Our Future is Public Conference is based on the following principles:

Collectivising knowledge: bringing different expertise and experience together to help each other to understand a big picture.
Non-extractive participation: promoting collective ownership of the process and achievements.

9th Annual Conference on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
2022-08-03 08:00 - 2022-08-04 17:00 | Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
