• The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is a United Nations treaty body entrusted with overseeing the implementation of the International...
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  • Economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) are socio-economic human rights, such as the right to education, right to housing, right to an adequate standard...
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    International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) on 16 December...
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    Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is an international treaty establishing complaint and inquiry mechanisms for the International Covenant on Economic...
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  • Commissioner for Human Rights Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. On May 17, 2013, a statement against sexual harassment and gender discrimination...
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  • Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights build on the 1987 Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic...
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    Right to food (category Human rights by issue)
    The right is derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which has 170 state parties as of April 2020. States that...
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    Right to housing (category Human rights by issue)
    human rights law which was clearly in the 1991 General Comment on Adequate Housing by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The aspect...
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    Intergovernmental Agencies Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial...
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    Olivier De Schutter (category International Federation for Human Rights)
    the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights between 2015 and 2020, he was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human...
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