ESCR Resources
Delivered on 19 January 2005
Madame Chair,
First, I join our thanks to those already expressed to all those involved in this Working Group.
As the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists explained last Monday, it is our firmly held belief that at the end of this...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 4:06pm
Delivered on 13 January 2005
Madame Chair,
The ICJ welcomes this opportunity to discuss the rights contained in Part III of the Covenant. By way of precursor to discussing these individual rights, the ICJ would like to make a general preliminary comment. I will be brief, as we have only...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 3:59pm
Delivered on 14 January 2005
Madame Chair,
In our previous interventions we have stressed the importance of adopting a comprehensive approach in an Optional Protocol, and I would like to reiterate the importance of this approach when considering Parts I & II of the Covenant. We have...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 3:55pm
Delivered on 10 January 2005 by Nicholas Howen, Secretary General
Madame Chair, as the Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists I am attending this important Working Group today to call for the drafting of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 3:50pm
Los siguientes son enlaces a algunas de las organizaciones que en su trabajo integran el análisis de presupuestos y los DESC. También encontrará enlaces a la documentación puesta a disposición por participantes del Grupo de Debate.
Organizaciones
The International Budget Project (IBP) asiste a...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 2:50pm
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS
Commission internationale de juristes - Comisión Internacional de Juristas
" dedicated since 1952 to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights "
ISSUES RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSIONS OF THE UNITED...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 1:44pm
Open-Ended Working-Group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
January 2005
Thank you Madam Chair.
The right to social security is perhaps one of the mostly baldly and briefly...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 1:07pm
January 2005
Madam Chair,
Having followed the discussions in this working-group over the last two weeks, my organisation, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), is very pleased to see that throughout the debates and the various interventions of delegations, a clear preferred...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 1:03pm
Open-Ended Working-Group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
January 2005
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Madam Chair,
As we are discussing, the report of the Secretary General containing...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 12:58pm
Thank you Mister Chairperson for the opportunity to address the Commission on behalf of the NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which is comprised of national, regional and international organisations and individuals...
Published: Dec 7 2006 - 12:46pm