Ressources DESC
State parties to the ICESCR may and are expected to use domestic legislation to promote and protect economic, social and cultural rights. A well-developed national legal framework is a key component in ensuring enjoyment of ESCR within a country. Legislative measures which respect the international...
Publié: 27 sep 2006 - 2:41pm
This section of our website includes information on current efforts to promote the drafting of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR). It aims to provide information to NGOs working at the national level who wish to contribute to the...
Publié: 27 sep 2006 - 11:34am
Indigenous peoples continue to challenge multiple violations of economic, social and cultural rights. In addition to facing higher rates of poverty, disease, and illiteracy, indigenous people also frequently suffer violations of their cultural rights, especially in regards to language, religion...
Publié: 26 sep 2006 - 5:38pm
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