CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women CERD Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination CESCR Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child FIDH FE[umlaut]dE[umlaut]ration Internationale des Ligues des Droits de I'Homme ICERD International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Part IV serves to illustrate the relevance of the abstract argument made before by discussing in detail three examples from the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR): the CESCR's views on (1) the obligations of international organizations under the International Convenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); (2) direct extraterritorial obligations; and (3) core obligations.
36) In General Comment 12,the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) indicated that '[s]tates have a core obligation to take the necessary action to mitigate and alleviate hunger'.
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which examined China's record for the first time, issued the recommendations at the end of a three-week session.
These are * the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) * the Human Rights Committee (HRC) * the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) * the Committee Against Torture (CAT) * the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
There are five other treaty bodies besides CEDAW: The Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Committee Against Torture and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Two international treaty bodies, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee have made the following statements, respectively, about abortion law and practice in Poland in recent years: "The Committee notes that the recent imposition of legal restrictions on abortion has excluded economic and social conditions as grounds for abortion.
Canada, a signatory of both international human rights covenants, reported to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland in November.
