Independent Expert's second study on an Optional Protocol – corrigendum (2003) E/CN.4/2003/53 Corr.1

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Fifty-ninth session

Agenda item 10

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Status of the international covenants on human rights

Report by Mr. Hatem Kotrane, independent expert on the question of

a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,

Social and Cultural Rights

Corrigendum

Executive summary

Replace the final paragraph with the following text:

“In conclusion, the independent expert recommends that the Commission on

Human Rights adopt a resolution in which it confirms the decision contained in its

resolution 2002/24, adopted at its fifty-eighth session, and to establish, at its fifty-ninth

session, an open-ended working of the Commission mandated to elaborate an optional

protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.”

Paragraph 76 (applies to the English version only)

The paragraph should read as follows:

“75. This leads the independent expert on the question of a draft optional protocol to

the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to recommend that

the Commission on Human Rights adopt a resolution in which it confirms the decision

contained in its resolution 2002/24, adopted at its fifty-eighth session, and to establish, at

its fifty- ninth session, an open-ended working of the Commission mandated to elaborate

an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural

Rights in the light of the report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural

Rights to the Commission concerning a draft optional protocol, comments by States,

intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations, and the report of the

independent expert.”