ESCR Resources
Economic, social and cultural rights are also recognized in national constitutions. The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights was signed and proclaimed in 2000 as the first formal document to bring together all the fundamental economic, social, civil and political rights of Europeans. All EU...
Published: Sep 8 2006 - 4:04pm
The Commission on Human Rights has established certain mechanisms to address thematic and country-specific human rights issues. One of these special procedures is the appointment of special rapporteurs or independent experts, whose mandate is to examine, monitor, advise, and publicly report on...
Published: Sep 8 2006 - 1:44pm
Religious and philosophical traditions worldwide have expressed the importance of protecting society's weakest and most vulnerable sectors and has advocated “speaking truth to power” in the cause of fairness and justice. Around the world, communities of faith and conscience have been at the...
Published: Sep 8 2006 - 12:33pm
...every individual and every organ of society...shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance... --Preamble to the Universal...
Published: Sep 8 2006 - 12:03pm