Center for Economic and Social Rights

Center for Economic and Social Rights CESR) "was established in 1993 to promote social justice through human rights."

Key Staff

 * Ignacio Saiz, Acting Executive Director
 * Sally-Anne Way, Acting Research Director
 * Kevin Donegan, Director of Communications

Former Staff

 * Eitan Felner, Executive Director
 * Jeremy Perelman, Researcher
 * Lidia Vicente Marquez, Research Assistant
 * Alexander Villanueva Gordon, Program Associate

Directors
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 * Victor Abramovich (Argentina), Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
 * Philip Alston (Australia), Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
 * Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Japan), Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School, New York
 * Richard J. Goldstone was a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2003).
 * Chris Jochnick (United States), Director, Private Sector Engagement, Oxfam America
 * Alicia Ely Yamin (United States), Director of Research and Investigations, Physicians for Human Rights

1999
Grants received from the following foundations: Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Eisner Charitable Fund, Public Welfare Foundation Donations received from the following individuals: Diana Cohn, Ligia Cravo

2000
Grants received from the following foundations: Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Public Welfare Foundation (CDES Funding) Donations received from the following individuals: Carol Bernstein Ferry, Matthew Nimetz

2001
Grants received from the following foundations: Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Samuel Rubin Foundation, Life Foundation Donations received from the following individuals: Elizabeth Benjamin, Carol Bernstein Ferry, Claude Welch Source

Contact

 * Web: http://cesr.org

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