Full Description
Economic, social, and cultural rights are finally coming of age. This book brings together all essential documents, materials, and case law relating to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) - one of the most important human rights instruments in international law - and its Optional Protocol. This book presents extracts from primary materials alongside critical commentary and analysis, placing the documents in their wider context and situating economic, social, and cultural rights within the broader human rights framework.
There is increasing interest internationally, regionally, and in domestic legal systems in the protection of economic, social, and cultural rights. The Optional Protocol of 2008 allows for individual communications to be made to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights after its entry into force in 2013. At the regional level, socio-economic rights are well embedded in human rights systems in Europe, Africa and the Americas. At the national level, constitutions and courts have increasingly regarded socio-economic rights as justiciable, narrowing the traditional divide with civil and political rights.
This book contextualises these developments in the context of the ICESCR. It provides detailed analysis of the ICESCR structured around its articles, drawing on national as well as international case law and materials, and containing all of the key primary materials in its extensive appendices. New in paperback, this book is an indispensable resource for students of international human rights law.
Contents
APPENDIX I: INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS 1966; APPENDIX II: ICESCR: RESERVATIONS AND DECLARATIONS; APPENDIX III: ICESCR: OBJECTIONS TO RESERVATIONS OR DECLARATIONS; APPENDIX IV: OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE ICESCR 2008; APPENDIX V: OPTIONAL PROTOCOL: RESERVATIONS AND DECLARATIONS; APPENDIX VI: RATIFICATION STATUS OF THE ICESCR AND OPTIONAL PROTOCOL (AS OF 2013); APPENDIX VII: ECOSOC RESOLUTION 1985/17 (1985) ESTABLISHING THE CESCR; APPENDIX VIII: CESCR, GUIDELINES ON TREATY-SPECIFIC DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLES 16 AND 17 OF THE ICESCR (2008); APPENDIX IX: CESCR, PROVISIONAL RULES OF PROCEDURE UNDER THE ICESCR (1989); APPENDIX X: CESCR, PROVISIONAL RULES OF PROCEDURE UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL (2012); APPENDIX XI: LIST OF CESCR GENERAL COMMENTS (1989-2013); APPENDIX XII: LIST OF CESCR CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS OR COMMENTS ON STATES (1980-2013)
