What does ESC stand for?

By confining debate on the bill to 11 days, ministers had prevented a debate on the European social charter opt-out, he claims.

He said that both the United Nations and the European Social Charter have ruled that children should enjoy the same legal protection from assault as adults.

; see PAUL SIEGHART, THE LAWFUL RIGHTS OF MANKIND 130 (1985) (acknowledging the European Social Charter (Art.

Social voting A referendum on the European Social Charter would be more important to ordinary people than voting on staying in Europe or a single currency.

In the intervening years, we have seen Germany unite, the Iron Curtain fall, worker migration increase from central Europe, a European Social Charter with worker rights enacted, and barriers against the movement of firms, capital and labor collapse.

6) Denmark supports the transfer of authority from national governments to the EC in three areas: environmental protection, full employment, and the European Social Charter.

2) In particular, there are international and European covenants on human rights that have been adopted and widely ratified, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,(3) the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,(4) the European Social Charter,(5) the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,(6) the European Community Treaty,(7) and various other U.