hosting visiting fellows and student scholars-in-residence who are conducting research and writing on cutting edge issues in economic and social rights.coordinating the publication of a volume of new scholarship on these issues and.organizing an international conference on taxation and human rights, planned for spring 2016.convening interdisciplinary workshops that foster dialogue on the inequality dimensions of various contemporary human rights issues.To address this gap, CHRGJ is developing a range of activities, including, among others: Yet, in this rising chorus, the voices of human rights scholars and practitioners have been far from prominent. Growing inequalities have sparked outcry from nearly all corners, prompting protests across the globe, spurring new research by political scientists and economists, and pushing policymakers to respond. It also seeks to strengthen community efforts to document the lived effects of those policies and to identify and reinforce channels of accountability for ESR violations.

By promoting research and scholarship focused on the intersection of the global economy and human rights, the Center seeks to elucidate structural causes of the widening gap between the rich and the poor within and across countries, including the impacts of economic and fiscal policies on the enjoyment of rights. The aim of the multiyear program is to critically examine the role of international human rights law and institutions in regulating the global economy and countering growing inequalities. Building upon the Center’s work in 2012-2014 on human rights fact-finding, methods and evidence, this new initiative shifts the focus to economic and social rights (ESR).

The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice has launched a new initiative on Inequality, the Global Economy, and Human Rights.

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