Economic & Social Rights Research Group (ESRG)
homepage photoThis interdisciplinary group of University of Connecticut faculty, graduate students and Affiliates meets bi-monthly to share ongoing research, and to discuss current scholarship in the area of economic and social rights.
News & Highlights
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JUST LAUNCHED, SERF INDEX HISTORICAL TRENDS 1970-2010
The SERF Index has been estimated for countries with internationally comparable data spanning four decades.Find out which countries have progressed and which have regressed in meeting the commitments to fulfill economic and social rights. See www.serfindex.org/data> -
2012 Workshop: Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights
The annual ESRG workshop will be held on April 13-14 this year with the theme of "Corporate Social Responsibility". The keynote address will be given by Joanne Bauer (http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/people/data/joanne_bauer.html). For more information, contact Kathy Libal (kathryn.Libal@uconn.edu) or David Richards (david.l.richards@uconn.edu).... Continued » -
NSF Grant Awarded
Susan Randolph, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Terra Lawson-Remer have been informed that their NSF Grant Proposal, Economic and Social Rights: Obstacle to Growth or Handmaiden of Growth?, will be funded, pending final approvals. Excerpts from the abstract follow. Measuring the extent... Continued »
