Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). It recently adopted an Optional Protocol providing for an individual communications mechanism which has not yet entered into force.
The CESCR Committee has produced guidelines for the participation of NGOs in their work.
IDA monitors the work of the CESCR Committe to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities as they relate to economic, social and cultural rights are given due attention by the Committee. Additionally, IDA provides input into the elaboration of General Comments by the CESCR Committee.
Here below you can find information about the recent session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. For detailed information on past sessions of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, please click the link "View All Sessions" at the bottom of this page.
48th Session (May 2012)
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will be meeting from 30 April - 18 May 2012 for its 48th session.
More information on this session.
IDA’s recommendations for Concluding Observations and IDA’s disability analysis of the State reports. With respect to Peru, the Peruvian National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities (CONFENADIP) made its own submission.
Pre-Sessional Working Group
The CESCR Committee will also hold a Pre-Sessional Working Group from 21-25 May 2012 to adopt lists of issues on Azerbaijan, Iceland, Iran, Jamaica and Japan, and in the absence of State reports: Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea.
More information on this Pre-Sessional Working Group.
With respect to Iceland, together with Organisation of Disabled Persons in Iceland (ODI) and the European Disability Form (EDF), IDA made a joint submission.
IDA’s submissions for the list of issues and IDA’s disability analysis of the State reports available.
