12 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF CYPRUS
08 May 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Cyprus, on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Introducing the report, Leda Koursoumba, Law Commissioner of Cyprus, said Cyprus attached great importance to the safeguarding and respect of human rights. The Constitution, upon which the State was structured, had an extensive bill of rights which incorporated all fundamental rights enshrined in the basic universal human rights…
12 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF BRAZIL
07 May 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the second periodic report of Brazil, on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Introducing the report, Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi, Minister in Chief of the Special Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic, said the personal life of President Lula showed the most important parts in the recent history of the Nation. It was an emblematic path of the victorious fight in a country for civil and political…
12 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF AUSTRALIA
06 May 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the fourth periodic report of Australia, on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Introducing the report, Caroline Millar, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said the agenda embarked upon by the new Government of Australia was unapologetically ambitious, including: to honour in word and deed Australia's Indigenous peoples; to respect social diversity and promote social…
12 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS OPENS FORTY-SECOND SESSION
04 May 2009
Meeting Summaries
Committee Elects Bureau, Adopts Agenda and Programme of Work
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning opened its forty-second session, hearing an address by Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Body Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also elected its new Bureau and adopted its agenda and programme of work.
In his statement, Mr. Ndiaye said that in a resolution the Human Rights Council had expressed its support to the Committee, and encouraged it to continue its…
12 years 3 months ago
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESS COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS ON SITUATION IN BRAZIL, AUSTRALIA AND CAMBODIA
04 May 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard statements from a series of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the situation of economic, social and cultural rights in Brazil, Australia and Cambodia.
In advance of the Committee’s review of the periodic reports of these three countries, NGO representatives spoke about, among others, the impact of violence, which impeded the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, due to the criminalisation of poverty; the use of…
12 years 8 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES FORTY-FIRST SESSION
21 November 2008
Press Release
Issues Conclusions on Reports of Nicaragua, Sweden, Kenya, the Philippines and Angola and on Situation in Kosovo on Basis of a Document Submitted by UNMIKC
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its forty-first session today, after issuing its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Nicaragua, Sweden, Kenya, the Philippines and Angola, which it considered during the session. The Committee also issued concluding observations and recommendations on a document presented by the United Nations Interim Administration…
12 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HOLDS GENERAL DISCUSSION ON DRAFT GENERAL COMMENT ON NON-DISCRIMINATION
17 November 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon held a General Discussion on a draft general comment concerning the right to non-discrimination.
Article 2(2) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stipulates that “States Parties undertake to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth…
12 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF ANGOLA
13 November 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the combined initial to third periodic reports of Angola on how that country is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
George Rebelo Chicoty, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Angola, in his opening statement, said Angola had introduced the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights into its national law. The armed conflict and civil war that had plagued Angola for years had…
12 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS EXAMINES REPORT OF THE PHILIPPINES
12 November 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the combined second to fourth periodic reports of the Philippines on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Erlinda F. Basilio, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations Office at Geneva, in her opening statement, said that the Philippines was a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic and multi-faith country. The great majority of the population belonged to indigenous groups.…
12 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS EXAMINES DOCUMENT PRESENTED BY UN INTERIM ADMINISTRATION MISSION IN KOSOVO
10 November 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today considered the document presented by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on how the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are being implemented in Kosovo which under Security Council resolution 1244 is being administered by UNMIK.
Ernest Tschoepke, Chief of the Office of Judicial Affairs of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), presenting the document…
