| remit |
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
- periodic reports every 5 years
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| type of issues considered |
- equal rights for men and women to enjoy economic, social and cultural rights (Article 3)
- employment rights (Articles 6 and 7)
- trade union rights (Article 8)
- social security rights (Article 9)
- family rights (Article 10)
- rights to an adequate standard of living (Article 11) and health care (Article 12)
- education rights (Articles 13 and 14)
- the right to participate in cultural life, benefit from scientific progress, and copyright and patent rights (Article 15)
- all the above rights to beenjoyed without any discrimination (Article 2.2)
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| number of members |
18 “experts with recognised competence in the field of human rights” |
| how nominated |
by States party to ICESCR |
| how elected |
by ECOSOC; for 4 year periods; can stand again; no more than one member per country; regard must be had to: geographical distribution, type of social and legal system;half committee stands down every 2 years |
| reports to |
ECOSOC |
| reports when |
annually |
| outline procedure |
- government submits report
- NGOs make submissions
- NGOs can request the opportunity to make oral submissions at the beginning of the pre-sessional working group, which meets in the week following each session to plan the work of the next session. The government is not present for this. NGOs can suggest questions to be put to the government
- one member of the pre-sessional working group takes responsibility for each country reporting, i.e. preparing a draft list of issues to be considered by the pre-sessional working group and drafting the Committee’s concluding observations
- NGOs can also request an opportunity to make oral submissions on the first afternoon of the session itself. The government does not participate but can observe
- the country report is considered over three 3-hour meetings (for initial reports) and two 3-hour meetings (periodic reports) during the session
- Committee meets in private to consider and adopt its concluding observations
|
| current members (name, country of origin, date mandate expires) |
- Mr Mahmoud Samir AHMED (Egypt 2002)
- Mr Clement ATANGANA(Cameroon 2002)
- Ms Rocio BARAHONA RIERA(Costa Rica 2004)
- Ms Virginia BONOAN-DANDAN(Philippines 2002)
- Mr Dumitru CEAUSU(Romania 2002)
- Mr Abdessatar GRISSA(Tunisia 2004)
- Mr Paul HUNT(New Zealand 2004)
- Mr Valeri KOUZNETSOV(Russian Fed 2002)
- Mr Giorgio MALINVERNI(Switzerland 2002)
- Mr Jaime MARCHAN ROMERO(Ecuador 2004)
- Mr Sergei MARTYNOV(Belarus 2002)
- Mr Ariranga Govindasamy PILLAY(Mauritius 2004)
- Mr Kenneth Osborne RATTRAY (Jamaica 2004)
- Mr Eibe RIEDEL(Germany 2002)
- Mr Walid SA’DI(Jordan 2004)
- Mr Philippe TEXIER(France 2004)
- Mr Nutan THAPALIA(Nepal 2002)
- Mr Javier WIMER ZAMBRANO (Mexico 2002)
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| un address |
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais des Nations United Nations 8 -14 Avenue de la Paix 1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland |
| submissions by |
at least 2 months prior to date set for discussion of report |
| secretarY |
Mr. Alexandre Tikhonov |
| ROOM NUMBER |
Room 1-025 |
| telephone |
00 41 22 917 9321 |
| fax |
00 41 22 917 9046 |
| e-mail |
atikhonov.hchr@unog.ch |
| relevant unleaflet(s) |
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Fact Sheet No. 16/Rev.1 The International Bill of Human Rights Fact Sheet No. 2/Rev.1 NGO participation in activities of CESCR E/C.12/2000/6 |
| established |
1985 |
| meets |
May and November, in Geneva |
| came into force uk |
1976 |
| last uk report |
September 1997 |
| next uk report |
2002 |
| came into force Ireland |
1990 |
| last Ireland report |
June 1997 – considered May 1999 |
| next Ireland report |
2002 |
| further reading |
The ICCESR: A Perspective on its Development, Matthew Craven, 1995 |
