• Members of the Campaign to Domesticate the Convention Against Torture address the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on Torture in South African Prisons, 30 November 2011.
  • Right to Education for Children with Disabilities Campaign Seminar, 17 November 2011.
  • Right to Education for Children with Disabilities Campaign seminar, 17 November 2011.
  • In early 2011, CLC's SER Project and the Parliamentary Programme, with Black Sash, Peoples' Health Movement SA, National Welfare Forum and Global Call to Action against Poverty, organised three strategy meetings on the ratification by South Africa of the ICESCR and its Optional Protocol.
  • On 2 February 2011, the Parliamentary Programme and the Children's Rights Project hosted a round table discussion with international expert on the rights of persons with disabilities, Professor Michael Stein, from Harvard University.
  • The purpose of the roundtable discussion with Professor Michael Stein was to engage campaign partners in a discussion on strengthening advocacy on the right to education for children with disabilities.

Resources

File International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
 
File Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
On 10 December 2008, the UN General Assembly adopted the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP - ICESCR) (See General Assembly resolution A/RES/63/117]. The Option Protocol provides a way for people to make complaints to the CESCR about violations of their rights under the ICESCR. The task of the CESCR will now include examining individual and inter- state complaints as well as making inquiries into grave or systematic violations of socio- economic rights.
File African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights
African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Banjul Charter)
File Draft Principles and Guidelines on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The African Commission on Human and People's Rights, Draft principles as contained in the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
File The Limburg principles
The Limberg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
File The Maastricht Guidelines
The Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
File International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS
International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. 2006 Consolidated Version
File Chart Comparison
Report: Comparing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to the South African Constitutional and International Obligations to these Socio- Economic Rights
File Statements on Ratification of ICESCR by South African Government
Government Statements Versus Government Action on the Ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
File The Nature of States parties obligations CESCR General Comments
The Nature of States parties obligations ( Art 2, par. 1) :. 14/12/90 CESCR General comment 3. ( General Comments)
File UN ICESCR General Comment 4: The Right to Adequate Housing
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the right to adequate housing (Art.11 (1)) : . 13/12/91
File UN ICESCR General Comment 6: ESCRs of Older Persons
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Economic, Social and Cultural rights of Older persons:.12/08/1995.
File UN ICESCR General Comment 7: Right to Adequate Housing - Forced evictions
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to Adequate Housing (Art.11.1): Forced evictions:.20/05/97.
File UN ICESCR General Comment 9: Domestic Application of the Covenant
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the Domestic Application of the Covenant: E/C.12/1998/24.
File UN ICESCR General Comments 11: Plans of Action for Primary Education
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the Plans of Action for Primary Education ( Art.14):. 05/10/1999. E/C.12/1999/4.
File UN ICESCR General Comment 12: The Right to Food
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to Adequate Food ( Art 11.):. 05/12/1999. E/C.12/1999/5
File UN ICESCR General Comment: The Right to Education
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to Education (Art. 13) :. 12/08/1999. E/C. 12/1999/10.
File UN ICESCR General Comment 14: The Right to Health
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to the Highest attainable standard of Health:. 08/11/2000. E/C. 12/2000/4.
File UN ICESCR General Comment 15: The Right to Water
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to Water, E/C.12/2002/11.
File UN ICESCR General Comment: 16: Equal Right of Men and Women
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural right. E/C.12/2005/4
File UN ICESCR General Comment 18: The Right to Work
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to Work. E/C.12/GC/18
File UN ICESCR General Comment 19: The Right to Social security
General Comment to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on The Right to Social Security (Art. 9): 04/02/2008. E/C.12/GC/19
File General Comment 20: Non- Discrimination
General Coment No.20. Non Discrimination in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( Art. 2, para. 2)
File Promoting Socio Economic Rights in South Africa through the Ratification and Implementation of the ICESCR and its Optional Protocol
Chenwi, L and Hardowar, R (2010)Promoting Socio Economic Rights in South Africa through the Ratification and Implementation of the ICESCR and its Optional Protocol. ESR Review, Volume 11 No. 1, 2010 at 3-6
File Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Mission to South Africa
Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural rights, including the Right to Development. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non - discrimination in this context, Miloon Kothari. Mission to South Africa.
Folder African Commission
South Africa Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the First Periodic Report of the Republic of South Africa, as submitted under Artcle 62 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples's Rights. Shadow Report to South Africa's First Periodic State Report to the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, presented at 38th session of the Africa Commission on Human and People's Rights, 21 November - 5 December 2005, Banjul, The Gambia. Republic of South Africa First Periodic Report on the African Charter on Human and People's Rights: 2001.
Folder ICESCR Ratification Campaign
A Civil Society Campaign to advocate for the ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and its Optional Protocol, by the South African Government. A Campaign of the Community Law Centre, Socio Economic Rights project, Black Sash, National Welfare Forum (NWF), Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP SA), People's Health Movement SA (PHM)
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