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Monitoring Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

India NGO Report CESCR

CESR - UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights

Draft Shadow Report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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Draft Shadow Report on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Under Articles 1-5 of ICESCR

Right to Self Determination (Article 1)

1. Indigenous People’s Rights

Maximum Available Resources (Article 2)

2.  Budget Analysis

Equality and Non Discrimination (Article 2(2))

3. Rights of Dalits

4. Rights of Women

Under Articles 6-9 of ICESCR

5. Right to Work (Article 6)

6. Rights at Work (Article 7)

7. Right to Trade Unions (Article 8)

8.  Right to Social Security (Article 9)

Under Articles 10-12 of ICESCR

9. Rights In a Family (Article 10)

10.Declining Sex Ratio

Right to Adequate Standard of Living (Article 11)

11.Right to food

12.Crisis in Agriculture

13.Right to Adequate Housing and Land

14.Livelihood(Assets and Natural Resources), development and displacement

15.Microfinance/ Micro credit

16.Right to Health (Article 12)

Under Article 13-15 of ICESCR

17.Right to Education (Article 13)

Critical Issues

18.Women and Conflict

19.Gujarat and Rights of Muslim Women

20.Sexual Rights as Economic Social Cultural Rights

Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights-General Comments

The committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights publishes its interpretation of the content at human rights provision, in the form of general comments on thematic issues.

The committee has issued the following general comments:

· General Comment 1: Reporting by States parties (Third session, 1989)

· General Comment 2: International technical assistance measures (Art.22, Fourth session, 1990)

· General Comment 3: The nature of States parties obligations (Art.2, par.1, Fifth session, 1990) 

· General Comment 4: The right to adequate housing (Art.11.1, Sixth session, 1991)

· General Comment 5: Persons with disabilities (Eleventh session, 1994) 

· General Comment 6: The economic, social and cultural rights of older persons  (Thirteenth session, 1995) 

· General Comment 7: The right to adequate housing, forced evictions (Art.11.1, Sixteenth  session, 1997) 

· General Comment 8: The relationship between economic sanctions and respect for economic, social and cultural rights (Seventeenth session, 1997) 

· General Comment 9: The Domestic Application of the Covenant (Nineteenth session, 1998) 

· General Comment 10: The role of international human rights institutions in the protection  of economic, social and cultural rights (Nineteenth session, 1998) 

· General Comment 11: Plans of action for primary education (Art.14, Twentieth session, 1999) 

· General Comment 12: The right to adequate food (Art.11, Twentieth session, 1999)

· General Comment 13: The right to education (Art.13, Twenty-first session, 1999)

· General Comment 14: The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art.12, Twenty-second session, 2000)

· General Comment 15: The right to water (November 2002)

· General Comment 16: The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all  economic, social and cultural rights (Art.3, (May 2005)

· General Comment 17: The right of everyone to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author (Art. 15 (1) (c)

· General Comment 18: The Right to work (Art. 6)

· General Comment  No. 19 The right to social security (article 9)

Covenant and General Comments

· International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

· Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

· Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - General Comments.

· General Comment No.16 (2005): 11/08/2005. E/C.12/2005/4. (General Comments) The Equal Right of Men and Women to the Enjoyment of All Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Article 3 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights).

Committee on ESC Rights: Procedures

· Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights– Members.

· Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Working Methods.

· Revised General Guidelines Regarding the Form and Contents of Reports to be Submitted by States Parties
under Articles 16 and 17 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: 17/06/91. E/C.12/1991/1. (Basic Reference Document).

· Towards Effective Monitoring of Compliance with Obligations and Progressive Realization of ESCR, by Clarence J. Dias.

NGO Participation: Shadow Report

· NGO Participation in the Activities of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

· International Women’s Rights Action Watch. NGO Shadow Reporting To CESCR: A Procedural Guide ( June 2003).

India and ICESCR

· India and ICESCR: Ratification, Declarations and Reservations.

· Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Periodic Reports Submitted by States Parties under Articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant Combined Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Periodic   Report of India.

· Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. List of the Issues to be taken up in connection with the Consideration of the Second to Fifth Periodic Reports of India Concerning the Rights Covered by Articles 1 to 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( E/C.12/IND/5).

· Centre for Reproductive Rights, May 10, 2007. Pre-Sessional Working Group on Economic, Social and Cultural  Rights. Supplementary Information on India.

· Briefing from Global Initiative, To End All Corporal Punishment of Children, Briefing For The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 21-25 May 2007, from Peter Newell, Coordinator, Global Initiative

Shadow Reports – Learning from Some Examples

· Talibanisation and Poor Governance, Undermining CEDAW in Pakistan, Second Shadow, April 15 2007.

· Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The Experience of the Brazilian Shadow Report by Flavia Piovesan

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