Ressources DESC
The obligations of the state in ensuring enjoyment of ESCR go beyond providing a just bare minimum of resources for people's access to basic goods and services for survival. The ICESCR demands that states devote as much resources they can towards fulfilling ESCR. This obligation places a priority...
Publié: 25 sep 2006 - 7:05pm
A key principle of human rights is that they must be applied equally to all people, without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.' As rights, ESCR are the entitlement of every...
Publié: 25 sep 2006 - 5:13pm
Under international human rights law, the state not only has the obligation to avoid, prevent and remedy human rights abuses, it must also do its utmost to advance awareness and acceptance of human rights. Human rights education is an integral part of the duties of human rights themselves. States...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 5:18pm
“…the essential first step towards promoting the realization of economic, social and cultural rights is diagnosis and knowledge of the existing situation.”- CESCR General Comment 2, Paragraph 3. 24 February 1989. To fulfill their ESCR obligations, states must monitor the extent to which economic,...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 5:10pm
The obligation to fulfill requires the state to take all the necessary measures for the realization of ESCR. As with civil and political rights, economic, social, and cultural rights require governments to actively participate in fulfilling these rights. This is an obligation of result, meaning...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 5:08pm
The obligation to protect requires the state to ensure that actions of third parties (non-state actors), under its jurisdiction, do not affect economic, social, and cultural rights. States must guarantee that essential goods and services such as healthcare, and education, that are provided by...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 5:02pm
The obligation to respect requires the state refrains from any acts that violates economic, social, and cultural rights. States should recognize and uphold the ESCR of all the individuals who live under their jurisdiction (both nationals and non-nationals). Special attention should be shown to the...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 4:58pm
The obligations of the state in ensuring enjoyment of ESCR go beyond providing a just bare minimum of resources for people's access to basic goods and services for survival. The ICESCR demands that states devote as much resources they can towards fulfilling ESCR. This obligation places a priority...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 4:55pm
Governments, no matter what level of resources are at their disposal, are obligated to make sure that people living under their jurisdiction enjoy at least essential levels of protection of each of their economic, social, and cultural rights. While the ICESCR recognizes the principle of progressive...
Publié: 8 sep 2006 - 4:36pm