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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - General Comments

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

The Committee has issued the following general comments:

No.	Subject	Date	Languages
19	The right to social security (advance edited version)	2008	A \| C \| E \| F \| S
18	The Right to work (art. 6) - Final edited version	2005	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
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)) - Final edited version	2005	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
16	The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights (art.3)	2005	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S Corr.1 F (only)
15	The right to water (arts. 11 and 12)	2002	E \| F \| R \| S
14	The right to the highest attainable standard of health (art. 12)	2000	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
13	The right to education (art. 13)	1999	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
12	The right to adequate food (art. 11)	1999	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
11	Plans of action for primary education (art. 14)	1999	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
10	The role of national human rights insitutions in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights	1998	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
9	The domestic application of the Covenant	1998	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
8	The relationship between economic sanctions and respect for economic, social and cultural rights	1997	A \| C \| E \| F \| R \| S
7	The right to adequate housing: forced evictions (art.11 (1))	1997	E
6	The economic, social and cultural rights of older persons	1995	E
5	Persons with disabilities	1994	E
4	The right to adequate housing	1991	E
3	The nature of States parties' obligations (art.2 (1))	1990	E
2	International technical assistance measures (art. 22)	1990	E
1	Reporting by States parties	1989	E

* General comment under consideration by the Committee. Number and date of adoption not yet know.

The general comments of all human rights treaty bodies are compiled in the document HRI/GEN/1/Rev.7.

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