14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF ALBANIA
16 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the initial report of Albania on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Ferit Hoxha, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania, said the Covenant entered into force with respect to his country on the eve of the immense transformation of Albania from the most brutal communist dictatorship to an open citizen-based society. Albania had changed tremendously. Its society had developed and the…
14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
14 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the initial report of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on how that country implements the provisions of the Covenant.
Introducing the report, Ljupco Meskov, Minister of Labour and Social Policy, said there was still a lot of work to be done in the country, especially in the area of employment, social rights, healthcare, and advancement of the position of women with the purpose of uniform implementation of all provisions of the Covenant in all areas…
14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF TAJIKISTAN
13 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the initial report of Tajikistan on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Introducing the report, Khamidov Khalifabobo, Minister of Justice of Tajikistan, said Tajikistan, from the first days of its existence as a sovereign state had been committed to the promotion of international law in the area of human rights. The ideal of the free human person, free from need and fear, could only be implemented if each and…
14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF EL SALVADOR
09 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has reviewed the second periodic report of El Salvador on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Introducing the report, Byron Fernando Larios Lopez, Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said progress was being made towards development, not only strengthening inter-American integration, but also regional initiatives and new forms of bilateral cooperation for development which made it…
14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONSIDERS REPORT OF THE NETHERLANDS
08 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has considered the third periodic report of the Netherlands on how that country is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Piet de Klerk, Ambassador at Large for Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, addressing the Committee, said the Netherlands was deeply committed to the object and purpose of the Covenant: it believed in the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights. Civil and political rights…
14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS OPENS THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION
06 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights opened its thirty-seventh session this morning, hearing an address from the Director of the Human Rights Procedures Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted its agenda for the session.
Addressing the Committee, Bacre Waly Ndiaye, Director of the Human Rights Procedures Division, said since the May session, important developments had occurred related to the Committee in particular and the United Nations human rights system in general. Advances had been…
14 years 9 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HEARS STATEMENTS BY UN AGENCIES AND SUBMISSIONS OF NGOS
06 November 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard statements from United Nations agencies and submissions from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on substantive issues arising in the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Representatives of United Nations agencies raised issues such as education, HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan, and national human rights institutions in the Netherlands, El Salvador, Tajikstan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Albania.…
15 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CONCLUDES THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION
19 May 2006
Press Release
Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Monaco, Liechtenstein, Canada, Mexico, and Morocco
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded today its three-week spring session by adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Monaco, Liechtenstein, Canada, Mexico, and Morocco, which were considered during the session.
These countries are among the 153 States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which are required to submit periodic reports to the Committee on efforts to implement the provisions…
15 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HOLDS DAY OF GENERAL DISCUSSION ON RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY
15 May 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today held a day of general discussion on the right to social security, article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, with the aim of formulating a General Comment on that article of the Covenant.
Alessio Bruni, representing the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the right to social security represented an important legal guarantee aimed at ensuring the right of everyone to live a life in human dignity in situations of social distress such…
15 years 3 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS REVIEWS THIRD PERIODIC REPORT OF MOROCCO
11 May 2006
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has reviewed the third periodic report of Morocco on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Introducing the report was Mohamed Bouzoubaa, the Minister of Justice of Morocco, who said Morocco was committed to the respect of all international covenants and treaties ratified in the field of human rights, and was also committed to cooperation with the treaty bodies in a constructive and clear dialogue. Political and social…
