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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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A ‘rosy picture’? Dutch ICESCR report reviewed by UN Committee

2009
Fons Coomans
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The ICESCR in State Public Policy-making in the International Investment System

2015
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Australia’s Journey to Ratification of the ICESCR and ICCPR

The Australian Year Book of International Law, 2019
Abstract This article explores Australia’s journey to ratification of the ICESCR and ICCPR. From a somewhat languorous consideration of the Covenants following their adoption by the General Assembly in 1966, the Australian federal government moved to enthusiastically support signature and ratification after the election of the Whitlam government ...
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State Reservations to the ICESCR: A Critique of Selected Reservations

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 2008
As of 18 April 2008, 42 of the 158 States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR or the Covenant), constituting about 27 percent of the States parties to the Covenant, had, between them, entered several declarations and reservations of varying significance to their acceptance of the obligations under the ...
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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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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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The “Right to Take Part in Cultural Life” Under Article 15 of the ICESCR

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1998
The fans' representatives also had some thoughts on the televising of games and pay-per-view television. They proclaimed “the right of fans to watch football matches on television without having to pay extra, since they take place in public arenas which have been paid for by the citizens ...
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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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ICESCR Optional Protocol: Reconciling Standards of Review

2013
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