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Interpretation of the ICESCR: Between Morality and State Consent

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Discussions concerning the interpretive practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have so far centred on the question as to the legality of the ‘special’ interpretive techniques and tools which it has developed: Does the special nature of the ICESCR as a human rights treaty justify recourse to interpretive methods that may not ...
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Influence of the ICESCR in Europe

2018
This chapter examines the influence that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR or the Covenant) and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have had on domestic law in Europe. It focuses on the Covenant’s legal influence in Germany, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and examines three issues ...
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Influence of the ICESCR in Africa

2018
This chapter considers the influence of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa. It seeks to show how the Covenant as interpreted by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has, through the fifty years since its adoption, influenced the regional and domestic protection of economic, social and ...
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

2016
Kalliopi Chainoglou
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RESTRICTIONS ON THE RIGHT TO HEALTH UNDER THE ICESCR

2001
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Interim Measures under the OP-ICESCR: Standards and Practice

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This paper explores the standards and practice with regard to interim measures in the context of individual communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The definition of relevant terms and requirements for filing a request for interim orders as set out by the Committee on Economic ...
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Unity Within Diversity: Comparisons with the ICCPR and the ICESCR

Abstract This chapter considers how the Human Rights Committee (HRC) under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) as well as the Committee under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) have addressed property interests.
José E. Alvarez, Judith Bauder
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Can the ICESCR Be an Alternative for Environmental Protection? Analysis of the Effectiveness of the ICESCR in Holding State and Non-State Actors Accountable for Environmental Degradation

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Businesses, human rights, environmental protection - areas which at first sight might seem to have little in common, are in fact greatly intertwined and as businesses become more internationalized, the need to have clear-cut laws regulating the relations among these areas becomes inevitable.
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A ‘rosy picture’? Dutch ICESCR report reviewed by UN Committee

2009
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Die Reichweite der aus dem ICESCR ableitbaren Pflichten

2020
Das Kapitel ist der Untersuchung der Reichweite der sich aus dem Pakt ergebenden Pflichten gewidmet. Dabei wird konkret der Frage nachgegangen werden, ob sich aus dem ICESCR sogenannte extraterritoriale Staatenpflichten, d. h. Pflichten uber die nationalstaatliche Ebene hinaus, ableiten lassen und wie weit diese reichen.
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