Legal Documents
The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.pdf
- The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.doc
- Link: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/OPCESCR.aspx
TheInternational Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.pdf
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.doc
- Link: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CESCR.aspx
Rules of Procedure under the OP-ICESCR
Considerations of the International NGO Coalition to the Rules of Procedure
This paper presents the NGO Coalition's views regarding key provisions of the OP ICESCR that it considers should be reflected in the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Committee) Rules of Procedure related to individual communications. We recognize that many questions regarding interpretation and application of the OP ICESCR will best be addressed by the Committee through the development of its jurisprudence. However, we consider the issues addressed in this paper to be appropriate for clarification in this preliminary stage of the Committee's work in light of their centrality to the effectiveness of the procedure and the existence of well-established jurisprudence and practice from other human rights bodies.
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