What does ESCR stand for?

Considered the most comprehensive international treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities--and only the fourth major human rights treaty ever adopted by the United States and the first during the twenty-first century--the convention obligates ratifying countries (140 since May 2008) "to prevent discrimination against, promote accessibility for, and work to achieve the full realization of economic, social, and cultural rights for persons with disabilities.

While economic, social, and cultural rights are subject to a country's maximum available resources and the principle of progressive realization, international human rights law's prohibition on discrimination is not.

of Pittsburgh) and Dorsey (executive director of the Wallace Global Fund and former chair of the board of Amnesty International USA) suggest that nongovernmental organization (NGO) and human rights advocacy has recently been characterized by three important trends: the sometimes tentative embrace of human rights-based approaches by influential development NGOs and donor agencies; the adoption of economic, social, and cultural rights agendas by major international human rights NGOS; and a surge of work on economic and social policy through a human rights lens by specialized human rights NGOS and by NGO alliances and social movement campaigns.

The Committee also concluded five years of work on a draft optional protocol to the Covenant, under which individuals and organizations from States agreeing to the treaty would be able to send to the Committee any allegations that their economic, social, and cultural rights had been violated.

It makes a distinction between in terms of measures taken in relation to economic, social, and cultural rights, providing that states should "undertake such measures to the maximum extent of their available resources.

9004147047 The protection of the right to education by international law; including a systematic analysis of Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

22 K3240 Law cases from different parts of the world show courts at work providing judicial protection of economic, social, and cultural rights.