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Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Crisis:

A Human Rights Analysis of Government Responses to the Economic Crisis

Direct Link to Full 24-Page Report:

http://www.escr-net.org/usr_doc/HRResponsestoEconCrisis_Final.pdf

"This report aims to deepen our understanding of how governments have conducted themselves and how effective economic policies have been in defending and strengthening the enjoyment of human rights in a time of multiple and interlocking social and economic crises. As governments and international institutions begin to grow complacent, arguing that the worst of the crisis is over, we aim to bring civil society voices into the debate which can attest to a different reality-a reality of deepening unemployment, further disenfranchisement of the most vulnerable, the breakdown of social safety nets and protection systems and the associated increase in unpaid work done mostly by women, increasing hunger and limited policy space particularly for developing country governments to act take the necessary actions to avoid and prevent economic and social  breakdown."

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