The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Centre for Civil and Political Rights cordially invite you to a side event in the context of the 31st session of the Human Rights Council. 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COVENANTS: A […]
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights; and Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development are happy to present a written submission to the Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women for their Half-Day of Discussion on “gender-related dimensions of disaster […]
United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 57th Session (22 February – 4 March 2016): Canada Extra-territorial obligations - Summary of Issues This is a summary of the key issues identified in the Parallel report submitted by the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in relation to the extra-territorial obligations of […]
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights welcomes the latest report from the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. In this report, the Special Rapporteur takes a detailed examination of homelessness as a violation of the right to adequate housing, and offers concrete recommendations to States on how to prevent, end […]
PRESS RELEASE – Tuesday 9th February 2016 The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) published last week a report assessing the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the Government of Kenya. In these “Concluding Observations”, the Committee expressed its concern about the “Low quality of education and rapid […]
The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights welcomes the recent findings and recommendations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding the human rights impact of privatization of education in Haiti and Kenya. Regarding Haiti, the Committee expressed concern that: “(d) Educational infrastructure is poor, schools are poorly equipped, particularly […]
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