New Guide: adjudicating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at national level
Publish Date:
Friday, September 19, 2014
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) launched its latest practitioners guide on the adjudication of ESCR at national level, as well as its associated online searchable version. This new Guide on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is the 8th in the series of ICJ resources for legal practitioners.
This new Guide
will inspire and help judges and lawyers working at national level to litigate cases involving economic, social and cultural rights. It builds upon the longstanding work of the organization in favor of legal and judicial protection of these rights. In particular, it aims at giving examples from a large variety of countries and jurisdictions of how courts and other bodies have dealt with the adjudication of these rights.
will inspire and help judges and lawyers working at national level to litigate cases involving economic, social and cultural rights. It builds upon the longstanding work of the organization in favor of legal and judicial protection of these rights. In particular, it aims at giving examples from a large variety of countries and jurisdictions of how courts and other bodies have dealt with the adjudication of these rights.The Guide also addresses issues that legal practitioners are faced with at the different phases of litigation, from initiating a case and evidence building to the provision of remedies and the enforcement of judicial decisions In addition to the electronic version of the Guide in a book format, the ICJ also launched a searchable online version that is accessible on the ESCR page of its website.
The ICJ hopes that these two versions of the new resource will be a useful tool for legal practitioners who want to promote ESCR and protect ESCR before their judicial and administrative bodies at the domestic level. The organization will use the Guide in its work at various levels and especially in trainings and symposiums involving justice actors to promote a better access to justice for victims of violations of ESCR and for an increased accountability in these cases.
The new resource is available in a printable pdf format as well as in an online searchable version accessible here.
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