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Influence of the ICESCR in Latin America

2018
The influence of the ICESCR in Latin America is significant, since countries in the region have increasingly incorporated ESCR into their legal systems during the last three decades. Several national constitutions contain such rights, and domestic courts have growingly recognized their justiciability.
Mónica Pinto, Martín Sigal
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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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Interpretation of the ICESCR

2018
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has developed a number of methods for interpreting the ICESCR that are often described as ‘special’ and as falling outside the framework of VCLT articles 31–33. However, this chapter argues that the VCLT can accommodate these methods.
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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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Introduction to ICESCR Optional Protocol [OP-ICESCR]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
The present document on Introduction to OP-ICESCR is an addition to the on-going work on the Human Rights Framework on ESC rights. It covers some basic information on the objectives of the OP and the key provisions dealing with mechanisms and processes. Much emphasis is given to highlighting the expansion of the normative framework through the works
Kansra, Deepa, Ramachandran, Mallika
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The Role of the State under the ICESCR

2015
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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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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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