Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights : A Legal Resource Guide.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Section One: International Instruments and Resources -- A. Treaties -- Chapter 1. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 2. Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Chapter 3. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination -- Chapter 4. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- Chapter 5. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- Chapter 6. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees -- Chapter 7. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families -- Chapter 8. ILO Convention No. 29 Concerning Forced Labour -- Chapter 9. ILO Convention No. 105 Concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour -- Chapter 10. ILO Convention No. 111 Concerning Discrimination in Respect of Employment and Occupation -- Chapter 11. ILO Convention No. 117 Concerning Basic Aims and Standards of Social Policy -- Chapter 12. ILO Convention No. 122 Concerning Employment Policy -- Chapter 13. ILO Convention No. 154 Concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining -- Chapter 14. ILO Convention No. 168 Concerning Employment, Promotion, and Protection Against Unemployment -- Chapter 15. ILO Convention No. 169 Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries -- Chapter 16. Convention Against Discrimination in Education -- Chapter 17. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field -- Chapter 18. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea -- Chapter 19. Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

Chapter 20. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War -- Chapter 21. Geneva Protocol 1 Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts -- Chapter 22. Geneva Protocol 2 Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts -- B. Declarations -- Chapter 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Chapter 2. Declaration on Social Progress and Development -- Chapter 3. Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice -- Chapter 4. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities -- Chapter 5. Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition -- Chapter 6. Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons -- Chapter 7. Declaration on the Right to Development -- C. Supplementary UN Standards and Resources -- Chapter 1. CESCR General Comment No. 1 (1989) on Reporting by States Parties -- Chapter 2. CESCR General Comment No. 2 (1990) on International Technical Assistance Measures (Article 22 of the Covenant) -- Chapter 3. CESCR General Comment No. 3 (1990) on the Nature of States Parties Obligations (Article 2(1) of the Covenant) -- Chapter 4. CESCR General Comment No. 4 (1991) on the Right to Adequate Housing (Article 11(1) of the Covenant) -- Chapter 5. CESCR General Comment No. 5 (1994) on Persons with Disabilities -- Chapter 6. CESCR General Comment No. 6 (1995) on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Older Persons -- Chapter 7. CESCR General Comment No. 7 (1997) on Forced Evictions (Article 11(1), The Right to Adequate Housing) -- Chapter 8. CESCR General Comment No. 8 (1997) on the Relationship Between Economic Sanctions and Respect for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 9. CESCR General Comment No. 9 (1998) on the Domestic Application of the Covenant.

Chapter 10. CESCR General Comment No. 10 (1998) on the Role of National Human Rights Institutions in the Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 11. CESCR General Comment No. 11 (1999) on Plans of Action for Primary Education (Article 14 of the Covenant) -- Chapter 12. CESCR General Comment No. 12 (1999) on the Right to Adequate Food (Article 11 of the Covenant) -- Chapter 13. CESCR General Comment No. 13 (1999) on the Right to Education (Article 13 of the Covenant) -- Chapter 14. CESCR General Comment No. 14 (2000) on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (Article 12) -- Chapter 15. Revised General Guidelines Regarding the Form and Contents of Reports to be Submitted by States Parties Under Articles 16 and 17of the ICESCR (1991) -- Chapter 16. CEDAW General Recommendation No. 13 (1989) on Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value -- Chapter 17. CEDAW General Recommendation No. 16 (1991) on Unpaid Women Workers in Rural and Urban Family Enterprises -- Chapter 18. CEDAW General Recommendation No. 18 (1991) on Disabled Women -- Chapter 19. CEDAW General Recommendation No. 24 (1999) on Women and Health -- D. World Conferences -- Chapter 1. Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action -- Chapter 2. Beijing Declaration: Fourth World Conference on Women -- Chapter 3. Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development -- Chapter 4. Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements -- E. Interpretive Texts -- Chapter 1. Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 2. Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Socialand Cultural Rights -- Chapter 3. Bangalore Declaration and Plan of Action Regarding Economic, Cultural and Social Rights and the Role of Lawyers -- Chapter 4. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Chapter 5. Comprehensive Human Rights Guidelines on Development-Based Displacement -- F. UN Human Rights Special Rapporteurs -- Chapter 1. The Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- Chapter 2. The Right to Adequate Housing -- Chapter 3. The Relationship Between the Enjoyment of Human Rights, in Particular Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and Income Distribution -- Chapter 4. The Question of the Impunity of Perpetrators of Human Rights Violations -- Chapter 5. The Right to Adequate Food and to be Free from Hunger -- Chapter 6. Violence Against Women -- Chapter 7. The Right to Education -- Chapter 8. Effects of Structural Adjustment Policies on the Full Enjoyment of Human Rights -- Chapter 9. Human Rights and Extreme Poverty -- Section Two: Regional Instruments and Resources -- Chapter 1. European Social Charter -- Chapter 2. European Social Charter Collective Complaints Procedure -- Chapter 3. European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms-Protocol One -- Chapter 4. European Convention on the Legal Status of Migrant Workers -- Chapter 5. European Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights for Workers -- Chapter 6. Treaty Establishing the European Community -- Chapter 7. American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man -- Chapter 8. American Convention on Human Rights -- Chapter 9. Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rightsin the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ("Protocol of San Salvador") -- Chapter 10. Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women -- Chapter 11. African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Chapter 12. African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child -- Index.

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide is an indispensable reference work for all those working in the field of international human rights law, organized in an easy-to-use format and accessible to both lawyers and nonlawyers.

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