Taking our voice to the UN – again!

By GRIPP’s ICESCR team

GRIPP has submitted our second submission to the UN’s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The CESCR are presently coming to the final stage of the Review of the state of these rights in the UK and GRIPP activists has shared invaluable knowledge and experience of poverty as a human rights violation direct from communities.

Have a look at what we had to say and read our report here on our Resources page.

We talk to the fear the Government inflicts upon our communities, the way the system is working to divide us to avoid accountability, and how lived experience knowledge has to be fundamental to any policy changes going forward. We illustrate these experiences through the lens of the Right to social security, the Right to assistance and protection of family life, the Right to work and the Right to adequate standard of living – though all the rights in under CESCR are interdependent, and like us within GRIPP, indivisible.

This week we will be travelling out to Geneva to attend the Committee’s meeting at the UN and lobby for our communities in person. Watch this space!