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Location: Geneva
COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is the body of 18 independent expertsthat monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its States parties. The Committee was established under ECOSOC Resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 1985 to carry out the monitoring functions assigned to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)in Part IV of the Covenant.
General Documentation of the 50th Session
- Provisional Agenda
- Tentative Programme of Work
- Note by the Secretary-General on the States Parties to the Covenant and the status of submission of reports
- Information Notes for NGOs
Consideration of State Reports
The Committee considered the following State reports during the session.
Azerbaijan
- State party's report
- (Common) Core Document
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Alternative Report by Citizen's Labor Rights Protection League
- Annex to the Alternative Report Submitted by the Citizen's Labor Rights Protection League
- Education on Human Rights Public Association
- Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
- Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network
- Human Rights Club
- Human Rights Watch
- International Displacement Monitoring Center
- International Baby Food Action
- International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- Public Association Assistance Free Economy
- Pulic Association Assistance Free Economy - Annex I
- Public Association Assistance Free Economy - Annex II
- Switzerland-Armenia Association (SAA)
- UNPO-FNLKA: Alternative Reports
- Info from NHRIs
- Statement
- List of delegation/participants
- Concluding observations
Denmark
- State party's report
- (Common) Core Document
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Danish Sex Worker Organization and the Street Lawyers
- Documentation Advisory Centre Racial Discrimination
- Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
- International Baby Food Action Network
- International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- Joint Danish Drug Users Union, Trinlose, The Danish Street Lawyers
- The Danish Institute for Human Rights
- Statement
- List of delegation/participants
- Concluding observations
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- State party's report
- (Common) Core Document
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Amnesty International Briefing
- Bahá’í International Community
- Education International/Coordinating Council of Iranian Teacher Trade Associations
- European Ahwazi human Rights Organization
- Fédération Internationale des droits de l'homme (FIFH) and Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI)
- Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human rights, Iranian Queer Organization and International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
- Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
- International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI): Alternative Report
- Justice for Iran (JFI) - Weapons of Mass Discrimination: The Islamic Republic Policies and the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of citizens in Iran
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO): Alternative Report
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization UNPO
- Statement
- Concluding observations
Jamaica
- State party's report
- Corrigendum
- (Common) Core Document
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Statement
- List of delegation/participants
- Concluding observations
Japan
- State party's report
- (Common) Core Document
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Alternate report by Japan Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Alternate Report by JFOR and RIIHRLP
- Alternative Report by the Working Women's Network 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Gay Japan News
- Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
- Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network
- Human Rights Now
- ICESCR Gender Report Project
- International Disability Alliance (IDA)
- Japan Federation of Bar Associations
- Japan Fellowship of Reconciliation (JFOR) and Research Institute of International Human Rights Law Policies (RIIHRLP)
- Japan Fellowship Reconcilation
- Japanese Workers' Committee for Human Rights
- Joint Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activists - Korean International Networks - MongDang Pencil
- NGO Committee for the Reporting on the ICESCR
- NGO Committee Report
- Osaka Bar Association
- Osaka Citizens' Association for the Right to Adequate Housing - recommendations
- Statement
- The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
- The Parallel Report
- Working Women's Network
- More...
- Statement
- List of delegation/participants
- Concluding observations
- Comments to concluding observations
Rwanda
- State party's report
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Statement
- List of delegation/participants
- Concluding observations
Togo
- State party's report
- (Common) Core Document
- List of issues
- Reply to List of Issues
- Info from Civil Society Organizations
- Coalition report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Togo
- Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children
- Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment of Children
- Solidarity and Action for the Development of Durable products in Togo
- Togolaise Association of Auditive Deficient Persosn for Progression and Development (A,T,P,D,A,P,D)
- Statement
- List of delegation/participants
- Concluding observations