ESCR Resources
Independent Expert's second study on an Optional Protocol corrigendum (2003) E/CN.4/2003/53 Corr.1
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTSFifty-ninth sessionAgenda item 10ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTSStatus of the international covenants on human rightsReport by Mr. Hatem Kotrane, independent expert on the question ofa draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,Social and...
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 6:25pm
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Fifty-ninth session
Item 10 of the provisional agenda
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...
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 6:22pm
Summary
In 1996, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights submitted to the Commission on Human Rights a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (E/CN.4/1997/105, annex). The independent expert has studied the draft, the report of...
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 5:52pm
STATUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
Note by the Secretary General
1. At its fifty-second session, the Commission on Human Rights took note of
the measures taken by the Committee on...
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 5:40pm
NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
http://www.op-icescr-coalition.org
Amnesty Internationalhttp://www.amnesty.orgBayefsky.comhttp://www.bayefsky.comCHOIKEhttp://www.choike.orgCOHREhttp://www.cohre.orgFIANhttp://www.fian....
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 11:34am
Additional resources can be found on the webpage of the NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
Nordic Journal of Human Rights Vol. 27, No.1:2009 12.1 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
http://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english/people/aca/malcolml/NTMR109-1.pdf
The CESCR...
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 11:32am
Please send us your feedbackIf you have undertaken advocacy and/or activities around the OP-ICESCR please share them with us. We would like to gather examples from around the world and post them in this section of the website.Also, if you have any documents you think we should include or if you...
Published: Dec 6 2006 - 11:20am
The Open-Ended Working Group on the OP-ICESCR was established in 2002 (CHR Resolution 2002/24) with a mandate to "consider options regarding the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights." In its resolution 2004/29, the Commission on...
Published: Nov 30 2006 - 7:29pm
When advocating for an OP-ICESCR it is important to address and understand many "myths" that have misguided some to challenge the very nature and relevance of economic, social and cultural rights. The following section of the website was developed by the NGO Coalition for an OP-ICESCR and is...
Published: Nov 30 2006 - 6:30pm