Resources
Further reading, research sources, and organizations working on ICESCR ratification and economic rights.
ICESCR and International Human Rights
- Full ICESCR Text (OHCHR) — Official text from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Ratification Status — Current list of states parties, signatories, and non-parties
- U.S. Failure to Ratify (Piccard, St. Mary's Law) — Legal scholarship on the history and implications of non-ratification
- CSIS: U.S. and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights — Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis
- General Comment 25: Right to Science — CESCR interpretation of Article 15 (directly relevant to AI)
- AAAS: Article 15 Resources — American Association for the Advancement of Science materials on the right to science
Human Rights Observatory
- Observatory Home — 802+ Hacker News stories evaluated against the 30 articles and Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- UDHR Article Scores — How the tech community discusses each of the 31 UDHR provisions, with HRCB scores and story counts
- RSS Feeds (OPML) — Import all 31 UDHR provision feeds into your reader at once; filter by article, stance, or domain
AI Economics Research
- METR: AI Developer Productivity (February 2026) — Experienced developers 19% slower with AI; foundational evidence against simple productivity narrative
- Anthropic: Estimating Productivity Gains — Nuanced findings on where AI helps and where it does not
- Wharton PWBM: Projected Impact of GenAI — Economic modeling of AI's macro-level productivity effects
- SF Fed: AI Possibilities, Productivity, and Policy — Federal Reserve analysis of AI's economic moment
- Faros AI: The AI Productivity Paradox — 75% of organizations reporting no measurable AI productivity gains
- Deloitte: State of AI 2026 — Enterprise AI adoption patterns: the 34/37 deep-vs-surface split
Geopolitical and Economic Context
- WEF Global Risks Report 2026 — World Economic Forum assessment of global risk landscape
- Tax Foundation: Tariff Tracker — Ongoing tracking of U.S. tariff policy and economic impact
- Yale Budget Lab: State of U.S. Tariffs — Detailed analysis of tariff impacts on households and GDP
- Goldman Sachs: AI Investment 2026 — $527B projected AI capital expenditure
Pedagogical Design and Human Rights Education
- United for Human Rights Education — Teaching materials and curriculum resources
- Amnesty International: Human Rights Education — Global HRE resources and methodology
- Advocacy Assembly: Designing for Change — Course on advocacy website and campaign design
Economic Theory
- Baumol's Cost Disease, AI, and Economic Growth — How AI interacts with the fundamental problem of unbalanced productivity growth
- Jevons Paradox and AI — When AI makes production cheap, demand explodes
- HBR: Layoffs Based on AI's Potential — Companies cutting jobs based on projected AI capability, not demonstrated performance
Organizations Working on Ratification
- The U.S. Human Rights Network — Coalition of organizations advocating for U.S. engagement with international human rights mechanisms
- The Opportunity Agenda — Works to expand human rights in the U.S. through communications, research, and advocacy
- National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) — Promotes economic and social rights as enforceable obligations in the United States
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — Human Rights Program — Engages with international human rights mechanisms on U.S. domestic issues