Economic and Social Rights
This is for academics, advocates, lawyers and others working on economic and social rights issues internationally, regionally and nationally. (If you work in the area and are not included, this is solely due to my Bluesky incompetence - please just let me know and I'll add you).
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@aoifenolan.bsky.social
@meghnaabraham.bsky.social
International human rights lawyer, strategist, and campaigner. Formerly Executive Director, CESR and Director, Global Thematic Issues, Amnesty International.
@magnuskillander.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; Executive Secretary, Association of Human Rights Institutes
@drjessiehohmann.bsky.social
UTS Faculty of Law. https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Jessie.Hohmann; https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=fw-XNPwAAAAJ&hl=en
@rishikasahgal.bsky.social
🏫 Assistant Professor, Birmingham Law School 👩🎓 NLU Delhi; @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social 🔎 Socio-Economic Rights to Housing, Cities, Spatial Justice; Indian + Global South Constitutions 🎨 Speechless City, Gulammohammed Sheikh
@miriamkullmann.bsky.social
Professor of Labour and Social Security Law @uurechten.bsky.social, member ECSR @coe.int
@drdonoghue.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD Works at the intersection of politics, sociology, political economy, via social/public policy. Into ideas. Ireland, UK & Europe #SocialCitizenship #Resilience #WelfareState #Ideology #Discourse #Cohesion
@fidh-official.bsky.social
FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) is an international human rights NGO federating 188 organisations from 116 countries.
@esranuki.bsky.social
Network for UK and Ireland based academics working on economic & social rights. Coordinators: Ben Warwick and Meghan Campbell of Birmingham Law School.
@upchildlaw.bsky.social
The Centre for Child Law champions children's rights through strategic litigation, policy reform, advocacy, research, and capacity building. We are a registered law clinic based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
@bonimeyersfeld.bsky.social
Associate professor at the Wits University School of Law and Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar. My areas of specialty are gender justice, international law, and business and human rights
@alicjazalesinska.bsky.social
Chief Executive/Prif Weithredwr - Tai Pawb. All views are my own (she/her)
@katedonald.bsky.social
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 (D.C.)/ angry feminist 💚 / by day: advocacy on global economic justice / by night: avid reader 📚 & frazzled parent / views are mine & a chaotic mix of personal, professional & political 🍉🌈
@aristivolou.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social W: https://www.gold.ac.uk/law/people/volou-aristi-/ Interested in social & economic rights and all issues human rights. *Views are personal.
@womenslink.bsky.social
Intersectional feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial organization working with and for the feminist movement in Latin America, East Africa and Europe.
@calsza.bsky.social
A centre of the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law and the first human rights organisation in South Africa. CALS has been reshaping justice since 1978
@mauropucheta.bsky.social
Lecturer at Kent Law School (UK) | Workers’ Rights & the Inter-American System of HR | Just Transition & Global South | Trade Blocs & Labour (Mercosur) | 🇦🇷 + LatAm https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/4761/pucheta-mauro
@mariakotsoni.bsky.social
Legal scholar, Post-doc at Princeton | PhD from EUI_Law | Consultant at European Social Charter | Writes about social rights and constitutional law
@bcernusa.bsky.social
Labour disciplining & racialised debt | Digital rights of workers | Writing 'Surplused. Roma under Czech racial capitalism.' under contract with MUP | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester. past: researcher @amnesty https://vimeo.com/842892762/c58992
@noconnor90.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School, researching fundamental (social) rights and their relationship to economic freedoms. Currently working as part of the EU-CIEMBLY project on intersectionality in citizens' assemblies: https://www.eu-ciembly.eu/en/home
@clairemahon.bsky.social
Human Rights Defender, working with courageous changemakers. Chocolate is my favourite everything.
@justjody23.bsky.social
Academic, researching the politics and ethics of equitable food and nutrition policy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=f1y3QEsAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
@bromebyd.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights…with a focus on social & economic rights.
@eilionoirflynn.bsky.social
Director, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, University of Galway. Interested in disability, intersectionality, access to justice and legal capacity. She/her.
@btcwarwick.bsky.social
Reader in Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School. Research on #HumanRights law; especially economic and social rights & institutions. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/warwick-ben
@hhrjournal.bsky.social
A peer reviewed open access journal promoting global health equity and the right to health. Published by the FXB Center, Harvard University, and the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.
@noampeleg.bsky.social
Academic; children's rights, human rights and family law; Author: "The Child's Right to Development" (CUP 2019); Views are personal
@clarefarmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University, Australia; SFHEA; Adult Parole Board, Victoria, Australia 💜🐕🍫📚⚖️🫖 Former Magistrate, England 🧐justice, policing, anti-social behaviour, trauma https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2905-2173 #FirstGen CCC/Oxon
@rightstracker.bsky.social
We measure the human rights performance of countries. Explore the data at RightsTracker.org, and learn more about us at humanrightsmeasurement.org.
@ewickeri.bsky.social
New Yorker / Hong Konger | Intl #HumanRights Advocate | Academic | Consultant | Strategist | Exec Dir Leitner Center | Adj Prof at Fordham Law | She/her
@sirigloppen.bsky.social
Political science prof. researching ⚖️law as political strategy @ Departement of Government & LawTransform, @unibergen.bsky.social 🚩Lawfare, autocratisation & resistance, human rights 🌈sexual & reproductive rights, child rights, climate, indigenous rights
@lauradebonfils.bsky.social
Feminist, LGBTI activist🌈, Knitter🧶, Secretary General @SocialPlatform. Co-Founder ARCI Bruxelles💥
@ellieharwood.bsky.social
Working to end child poverty at CPAG. Interested in social security, children's rights, co-production and devolution. "No great men, only the great many!"
@dralistruthers.bsky.social
Reader at Warwick Law School | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Participation | #TaskmasterEducation Co-founder | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot 🏴 “Surprisingly socially functional for an academic"
@hrcscotland.bsky.social
Scotland's civil society network to defend and promote human rights | Reposts don't necessarily represent member views.
@uon-hrlc.bsky.social
Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham. We are committed to the promotion & protection of human rights, as well as the establishment & strengthening of the rule of law worldwide. https://linktr.ee/humanrightslawcentre
@leilanifarha.bsky.social
Global Director, The Shift Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing Co-Host PUSHBACK Talks International law; human rights; housing; cities; finance
@srmwilliams.bsky.social
Lecturer @lawUCC . Founder @TEJPUCC . Interest in access to justice, non-discrimination, courtroom ethnography and clinical legal education #ProudTravellerAlly
@jbruceporter.bsky.social
Director Social Rights Advocacy Centre, https://www.socialrights.ca/publications.htm, Maytree Fellow, Charter Committee on Poverty Issues, ESCR-Net
@balaraj.bsky.social
UN Special Rapporteur on Right to adequate housing and MIT Professor
@rebeccariddell.bsky.social
Human rights + economic justice. Senior policy lead at Oxfam America. Texan in Brooklyn. She/her and views my own.
@khawaja.bsky.social
Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
@bethgoldblatt.bsky.social
Law Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand working on equality and climate justice. Swimming, especially in ocean pools, keeps me sane!
@guyjbaldwin.bsky.social
🇦🇺 "Not the smartest" Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights at Manchester. BA LLB (UNSW) PhD (Cambridge). Usual disclaimers. Website: guyjbaldwin.com
@jleytong.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law, PhD Candidate, University of Bristol School of Law. Labour Law, Human Rights. 🇨🇱 en 🇬🇧 Papá, marido.
@tnovitz.bsky.social
Professor of Labour Law, University of Bristol, UK. Researching and writing on work, migration, collective voice, trade and sustainability. Recent book: Trade, Labour and Sustainable Development: Leaving No One in the World of Work Behind (EE 2024)
@palummo.bsky.social
Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights #REDESCA #IACHR | #AdvisoryCommittee #UN_HRC | Former Research Director #IPPDH_MERCOSUR | PhD in #HumanRights | Personal views only.
@lindsaygrahamuk.bsky.social
DUniv - OBE - CF - Highlander Former #Nurse / National Lottery Community Fund 🏴 Interests - #Food #Poverty #Environment and Nolan Principles. Forget my 👓 often expect typos.
@matigre.bsky.social
Director of Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School
@socialplatform.bsky.social
Leading organisation working on EU #SocialRights. We amplify the voices of people striving for a more social Europe & work to ensure social rights and equality are respected, upheld and mainstreamed across EU policy-making. www.socialplatform.org
@taipawb.bsky.social
We promote equality and social justice in housing in Wales. We are campaigning for the human right to a good home in Wales to embedded into law (https://www.taipawb.org/policy-influencing/backthebill/) Posts by the Tai Pawb team.
@gauravmkjee.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, UConn, formerly NYU Law | education & housing in constitutions; democratic erosion | Co-Chair, Academic Committee, Asian American Bar Association of New York | gauravmukherjee.com
@davidbirchallz.bsky.social
I do things in business and human rights, environmental law and socioeconomic rights. A Brit recently relocated to Sydney.
@lukedgraham.bsky.social
Lecturer in Public Law & Human Rights | Univeristy of Manchester | Economic & Social Rights | Right to Clothing | Destitution.
@alexwfirth.bsky.social
Advocacy & Comms at Just Fair / economic, social and cultural rights are human rights / build more homes. Work on the UK, based in Mexcio City. www.justfair.org.uk
@judithmesquita.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. Working at intersection of human rights, global public health, environment, sustainability.
@mckeevergrainne.bsky.social
Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Legal participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'
@kartikraj.bsky.social
Work @hrw.org on poverty, inequality, social security, human rights in Europe Migrant. Parent. Pedant. Anorak. He/him. Barcelona-based. Work output here: https://www.hrw.org/about/people/kartik-raj
@cpaguk.bsky.social
Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.
@rjjoconnell.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Posts on human rights, equality & constitutional law. Posting in personal capacity.
@feantsa.bsky.social
FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organisations Working with #homeless people, is a coalition committed to fighting #homelessness in Europe
@helstinki.bsky.social
It'd be fair to say I've an interest in human rights. Also I shook hands with an astronaut once. She/her.
@justfairuk.bsky.social
We bring together social justice and human rights in the UK by campaigning for economic, social & cultural rights. Image via Rozalina Burkova. https://justfair.org.uk/
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section). http://amnesty.org.uk/
@stevecockburn.bsky.social
Amnesty International. Sport, human rights, workers rights, inequality. NUFC.
@sabinegoodwin.bsky.social
Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN) Director | Anti-poverty campaigner advocating for #cashfirst solutions to food insecurity to end the need for charitable food aid | Latest opinion pieces for @bigissue.com: https://www.bigissue.com/tag/sabine-goodwin/
@jrf-uk.bsky.social
We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish. https://www.jrf.org.uk/
@sustainweb.org
We believe everyone should have access to healthy and sustainably produced food that protects people, animals and planet. https://www.sustainweb.org/
@aliciay.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer, global health. Social/reproductive justice. Justicia social/reproductiva. 💚 Harvard Law/ SPH and Partners In Health.
@dpn78.bsky.social
Human rights - access to justice - SE Asia - Timor Leste - NMFC - MCFC - views are my own.
@davidvitale.bsky.social
Associate Prof, Warwick Law School | Public law, social rights, trust | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7836-0845?lang=en
@clumperino.bsky.social
Still a feministy, human rightsy type. Working in policy. Riding bikes. Enjoying snark. Keeping an eye on Windsor Framework/NI Protocol. Don't do socials much these days. All views my own etc. She/her.
@silviasteininger.bsky.social
(international) law, social sciences & interdisciplinarity at @hertiecfr.bsky.social & @mpil.de. member of the board of @esil-sedi.bsky.social. #firstgen , 🐶, she/her. too loud & too excited about too many things.
@evelyneschmid.bsky.social
Prof internat’l law Uni Lausanne, #ilspUNIL. Books: http://bit.ly/ESCRinICL, human rights / int'l treaties at the subnational level; I work on omissions, state resp, corporate capture & climate, and I #staygrounded
@cristyclark.bsky.social
Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (June 2025). Australian living in UK. She/her
@drmcastan.bsky.social
Professor of Law~ proper work in Australian Constitutional Law, Legal Education, Human Rights Law. See Case in Point (+Just Cases) podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/case-in-point/id1774138689
@hollycullenfreo.bsky.social
International law academic living on Whadjak Noongar Boodjar. Cats, cooking and crafts. Dockers fan for AFLW/AFL https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-9413
@vmantouvalou.bsky.social
Professor of Human Rights& Labour Law at UCL; Articles Editor, Modern Law Review; Co-Editor, UK Labour Law Blog; Chair of Kalayaan https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/22589
@nataliesedacca.bsky.social
Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
@cesr.bsky.social
We are an international organization harnessing the power of human rights. Our goal: To build an economy that works for people & the planet.
@koldocasla.bsky.social
Leire eta Nahiaren aita; Dad of two • Senior Lecturer Essex Law School & Human Rights Centre @universityofessex.bsky.social • Politics, Law, Social Rights • My next book: 'The Social Right to Property: Social Function & Human Rights' ✍️ 📖
@goldmatt.bsky.social
Law, the universe, and everything @EBSUniversity @mpil.de #debt #colonialism #money #intlaw #EU „Borkenkäfer 🪲der linksgrün-merkelistischen Bonzenfront.“
@conorom.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University College Cork. Teaching and researching constitutional law and children's rights. Father of two. Sports fan. Hillwalker and cyclist. https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B012/conor.omahony@ucc.ie
@duycks.bsky.social
Senior Attorney - #ClimateJustice & right to healthy environment at the Center for International Environmental Law (@cielorg.bsky.social) | demystifying international law, one emoji at a time | Focused on #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ | Dad * Opinions my own
@aoifenolan.bsky.social
Human Rights Professor; Director @uon-hrlc.bsky.social; President, @coe.int European Committee of Social Rights; Academic Expert @doughtystreet.bsky.social. All opinions my own. More on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifeanolan/