International Education & Advocacy
Learning and advocacy initiatives across international forums.
SRAC supports international learning, advocacy, and test-case litigation to advance economic, social, and cultural rights. This work includes global caselaw resources, submissions to UN bodies, strategic litigation partnerships, and policy engagement on issues such as vaccine equity.
SRAC is a partner in the ESCR-Net Caselaw Database and a member of the International Strategic Litigation Working Group. These collaborations support critical jurisprudence, pleadings, and analysis from social rights cases around the world.
SRAC participated in third-party interventions under the OP-ICESCR, including the case of Mohamed Ben Djazia and Naouel Bellili v Spain, and supported submissions by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing.
On the Detroit Right to Water Case (Lyda v. Detroit), SRAC worked with the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Dejusticia, and ESCR-Net to support an amicus brief and motion before the U.S. District Court.
SRAC has coordinated civil society engagement in Canada’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process, including a joint NGO submission addressing the implementation gap between Canada’s international commitments and domestic policy.
SRAC also supports Canadian NGO engagement with UN treaty monitoring bodies and regional human rights systems, including submissions to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.