The Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales – CDES (Center for Economic and Social Rights, in English) is an organization that defends the living, material, and environmental conditions associated with the exercise of Human Rights. Since its constitution in 1997, it has accompanied processes of rights reinforcement in the strengthening of environmental justice and economic justice in Latin America. It bases its contents on the social, legal, and economic sciences and participatory action research.