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The right to social security (Art. 9) 2007, para. 28

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The right to social security plays an important role in supporting the realization of many of the rights in the Covenant, but other measures are necessary to complement the right to social security. For example, States parties should provide social services for rehabilitation of the injured and persons with disabilities in accordance with article 6 of the Covenant, provide child care and welfare, advice and assistance with family planning and the provision of special facilities for persons with disabilities and older persons (article 10); take measures to combat poverty and social exclusion and provide supporting social services (article 11); and adopt measures to prevent disease and improve health facilities, goods and services (article 12). States parties should also consider schemes that provide social protection to individuals belonging to disadvantaged and marginalized groups, for example crop or natural disaster insurance for small farmers or livelihood protection for self-employed persons in the informal economy. However, the adoption of measures to realize other rights in the Covenant will not in itself act as a substitute for the creation of social security schemes.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Poverty
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Older persons
  • Persons with disabilities
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to just and favourable conditions of work (Art. 7) 2016, para. 7

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The term "remuneration" goes beyond the more restricted notion of "wage" or "salary" to include additional direct or indirect allowances in cash or in kind paid by the employer to the employee that should be of a fair and reasonable amount, such as grants, contributions to health insurance, housing and food allowances, and on-site affordable childcare facilities.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (Art. 15, para. 1(a)) 2009, para. 35

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As education is intrinsically related to culture, the Committee recommends that States parties adopt appropriate measures to enable the children of migrants to attend, on a basis of equal treatment, State-run educational institution and programmes.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 2, para. 2) 2009, para. 8b

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[In order for States parties to "guarantee" that the Covenant rights will be exercised without discrimination of any kind, discrimination must be eliminated both formally and substantively:] Substantive discrimination: Merely addressing formal discrimination will not ensure substantive equality as envisaged and defined by article 2, paragraph 2. The effective enjoyment of Covenant rights is often influenced by whether a person is a member of a group characterized by the prohibited grounds of discrimination. Eliminating discrimination in practice requires paying sufficient attention to groups of individuals which suffer historical or persistent prejudice instead of merely comparing the formal treatment of individuals in similar situations. States parties must therefore immediately adopt the necessary measures to prevent, diminish and eliminate the conditions and attitudes which cause or perpetuate substantive or de facto discrimination. For example, ensuring that all individuals have equal access to adequate housing, water and sanitation will help to overcome discrimination against women and girl children and persons living in informal settlements and rural areas.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights 2005, para. 27

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Article 10, paragraph 1, of the Covenant requires that States parties recognize that the widest possible protection and assistance should be accorded to the family, and that marriage must be entered into with the free consent of the intending spouses. Implementing article 3, in relation to article 10, requires States parties, inter alia, to provide victims of domestic violence, who are primarily female, with access to safe housing, remedies and redress for physical, mental and emotional damage; to ensure that men and women have an equal right to choose if, whom and when to marry - in particular, the legal age of marriage for men and women should be the same, and boys and girls should be protected equally from practices that promote child marriage, marriage by proxy, or coercion; and to ensure that women have equal rights to marital property and inheritance upon their husband's death. Gender-based violence is a form of discrimination that inhibits the ability to enjoy rights and freedoms, including economic, social and cultural rights, on a basis of equality. States parties must take appropriate measures to eliminate violence against men and women and act with due diligence to prevent, investigate, mediate, punish and redress acts of violence against them by private actors.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12) 2000, para. 35

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Obligations to protect include, inter alia, the duties of States to adopt legislation or to take other measures ensuring equal access to health care and health-related services provided by third parties; to ensure that privatization of the health sector does not constitute a threat to the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of health facilities, goods and services; to control the marketing of medical equipment and medicines by third parties; and to ensure that medical practitioners and other health professionals meet appropriate standards of education, skill and ethical codes of conduct. States are also obliged to ensure that harmful social or traditional practices do not interfere with access to pre- and post-natal care and family-planning; to prevent third parties from coercing women to undergo traditional practices, e.g. female genital mutilation; and to take measures to protect all vulnerable or marginalized groups of society, in particular women, children, adolescents and older persons, in the light of gender-based expressions of violence. States should also ensure that third parties do not limit people's access to health-related information and services.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Older persons
  • Women
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12) 2000, para. 22

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Article 12.2 (a) outlines the need to take measures to reduce infant mortality and promote the healthy development of infants and children. Subsequent international human rights instruments recognize that children and adolescents have the right to the enjoyment of the highest standard of health and access to facilities for the treatment of illness. The Convention on the Rights of the Child directs States to ensure access to essential health services for the child and his or her family, including pre- and post-natal care for mothers. The Convention links these goals with ensuring access to child-friendly information about preventive and health-promoting behaviour and support to families and communities in implementing these practices. Implementation of the principle of non-discrimination requires that girls, as well as boys, have equal access to adequate nutrition, safe environments, and physical as well as mental health services. There is a need to adopt effective and appropriate measures to abolish harmful traditional practices affecting the health of children, particularly girls, including early marriage, female genital mutilation, preferential feeding and care of male children. Children with disabilities should be given the opportunity to enjoy a fulfilling and decent life and to participate within their community.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to adequate food (Art. 11) 1999, para. 13

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Accessibility encompasses both economic and physical accessibility: Economic accessibility implies that personal or household financial costs associated with the acquisition of food for an adequate diet should be at a level such that the attainment and satisfaction of other basic needs are not threatened or compromised. Economic accessibility applies to any acquisition pattern or entitlement through which people procure their food and is a measure of the extent to which it is satisfactory for the enjoyment of the right to adequate food. Socially vulnerable groups such as landless persons and other particularly impoverished segments of the population may need attention through special programmes. Physical accessibility implies that adequate food must be accessible to everyone, including physically vulnerable individuals, such as infants and young children, elderly people, the physically disabled, the terminally ill and persons with persistent medical problems, including the mentally ill. Victims of natural disasters, people living in disaster-prone areas and other specially disadvantaged groups may need special attention and sometimes priority consideration with respect to accessibility of food. A particular vulnerability is that of many indigenous population groups whose access to their ancestral lands may be threatened.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Infants
Year
1999
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to social security (Art. 9) 2007, para. 19

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Article 10 of the Covenant expressly provides that "working mothers should be accorded paid leave or leave with adequate social security benefits". Paid maternity leave should be granted to all women, including those involved in atypical work, and benefits should be provided for an adequate period. Appropriate medical benefits should be provided for women and children, including perinatal, childbirth and postnatal care and care in hospital where necessary
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Women
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to social security (Art. 9) 2007, para. 2

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The right to social security encompasses the right to access and maintain benefits, whether in cash or in kind, without discrimination in order to secure protection, inter alia, from (a) lack of work-related income caused by sickness, disability, maternity, employment injury, unemployment, old age, or death of a family member; (b) unaffordable access to health care; (c) insufficient family support, particularly for children and adult dependents.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to work (Art. 6) 2005, para. 24

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With regard to the obligations of States parties relating to child labour as set out in article 10 of the Covenant, States parties must take effective measures, in particular legislative measures, to prohibit labour of children under the age of 16. Further, they have to prohibit all forms of economic exploitation and forced labour of children. States parties must adopt effective measures to ensure that the prohibition of child labour will be fully respected.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2005
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to education (Art. 13) 1999, para. 24

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[The right to fundamental education] It should be emphasized that enjoyment of the right to fundamental education is not limited by age or gender; it extends to children, youth and adults, including older persons. Fundamental education, therefore, is an integral component of adult education and life-long learning. Because fundamental education is a right of all age groups, curricula and delivery systems must be devised which are suitable for students of all ages
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Older persons
  • Youth
Year
1999
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 2, para. 2) 2009, para. 30

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The ground of nationality should not bar access to Covenant rights, e.g. all children within a State, including those with an undocumented status, have a right to receive education and access to adequate food and affordable health care. The Covenant rights apply to everyone including non-nationals, such as refugees, asylum-seekers, stateless persons, migrant workers and victims of international trafficking, regardless of legal status and documentation.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12) 2000, para. 14

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The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child (art. 12.2 (a)) may be understood as requiring measures to improve child and maternal health, sexual and reproductive health services, including access to family planning, pre- and post-natal care, emergency obstetric services and access to information, as well as to resources necessary to act on that information.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to education (Art. 13) 1999, para. 55

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States parties have an obligation to ensure that communities and families are not dependent on child labour. The Committee especially affirms the importance of education in eliminating child labour and the obligations set out in article 7 (2) of the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (Convention No. 182). Additionally, given article 2 (2), States parties are obliged to remove gender and other stereotyping which impedes the educational access of girls, women and other disadvantaged groups.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Education
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
1999
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to just and favourable conditions of work (Art. 7) 2016, para. 32

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Equality in promotion requires the analysis of direct and indirect obstacles to promotion, as well as the introduction of measures such as training and initiatives to reconcile work and family responsibilities, including affordable day-care services for children and dependent adults. In order to accelerate de facto equality, temporary special measures might be necessary. They should be regularly reviewed and appropriate sanctions applied in the event of non-compliance.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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State obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities 2017, para. 28

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Extraterritorial obligations arise when a State party may influence situations located outside its territory, consistent with the limits imposed by international law, by controlling the activities of corporations domiciled in its territory and/or under its jurisdiction, and thus may contribute to the effective enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights outside its national territory. In that regard, the Committee also takes note of general comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights, of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as well as of the positions adopted by other human rights treaty bodies.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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State obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities 2017, para. 8

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Among the groups that are often disproportionately affected by the adverse impact of business activities are women, children, indigenous peoples, particularly in relation to the development, utilization or exploitation of lands and natural resources, peasants, fisherfolk and other people working in rural areas, and ethnic or religious minorities where these minorities are politically disempowered. Persons with disabilities are also often disproportionately affected by the negative impacts of business activities, in particular because they face particular barriers in accessing accountability and remedy mechanisms. As noted by the Committee on previous occasions, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are at particular risk of facing discrimination in the enjoyment of Covenant rights due to their precarious situation, and under article 7 of the Covenant, migrant workers are particularly vulnerable to exploitation, long working hours, unfair wages and dangerous and unhealthy working environments.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Ethnic minorities
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2017
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12) 2000, para. 44a

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[The Committee also confirms that the following are obligations of comparable priority:] To ensure reproductive, maternal (pre-natal as well as post-natal) and child health care;
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to the highest attainable standard of health (Art. 12) 2000, para. 24

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In all policies and programmes aimed at guaranteeing the right to health of children and adolescents their best interests shall be a primary consideration.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2000
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Persons with Disabilities 1994, para. 32

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Children with disabilities are especially vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and neglect and are, in accordance with article 10 (3) of the Covenant (reinforced by the corresponding provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child), entitled to special protection.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons with disabilities
Year
1994
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to sexual and reproductive health (Art. 12) 2016, para. 60

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States must effectively monitor and regulate specific sectors, such as private health care providers, health insurance companies, educational and child-care institutions, institutional care facilities, refugee camps, prisons and other detention centres, to ensure that they do not undermine or violate enjoyment by individuals of the right to sexual and reproductive health. States have an obligation to ensure that private health insurance companies do not refuse to cover sexual and reproductive health services. Furthermore, States also have an extraterritorial obligation to ensure that transnational corporations, such as pharmaceutical companies operating globally, do not violate the right to sexual and reproductive health of people in other countries, for example through non-consensual testing of contraceptives or medical experiments.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to sexual and reproductive health (Art. 12) 2016, para. 59

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Violations of the obligation to protect occur when a State fails to take effective steps to prevent third parties from undermining the enjoyment of the right to sexual and reproductive health. This includes the failure to prohibit and take measures to prevent all forms of violence and coercion committed by private individuals and entities, including domestic violence, rape (including marital rape), sexual assault, abuse and harassment, including during conflict, post-conflict and transition situations; violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons or women seeking abortion or post-abortion care; harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, child and forced marriage, forced sterilization, forced abortion and forced pregnancy; and medically unnecessary, irreversible and involuntary surgery and treatment performed on intersex infants or children.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
  • Health
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • LGBTQI+
  • Women
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to sexual and reproductive health (Art. 12) 2016, para. 49f

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[States parties have a core obligation to ensure, at the very least, minimum essential levels of satisfaction of the right to sexual and reproductive health. In this regard, States parties should be guided by contemporary human rights instruments and jurisprudence, as well as the most current international guidelines and protocols established by United Nations agencies, in particular WHO and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The core obligations include at least the following:] To ensure all individuals and groups have access to comprehensive education and information on sexual and reproductive health that are non-discriminatory, non-biased, evidence-based, and that take into account the evolving capacities of children and adolescents;
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to sexual and reproductive health (Art. 12) 2016, para. 29

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It is also important to undertake preventive, promotional and remedial action to shield all individuals from the harmful practices and norms and gender-based violence that deny them their full sexual and reproductive health, such as female genital mutilation, child and forced marriage and domestic and sexual violence, including marital rape, among other things. States parties must put in place laws, policies and programmes to prevent, address and remediate violations of the right of all individuals to autonomous decision-making on matters regarding their sexual and reproductive health, free from violence, coercion and discrimination.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Harmful Practices
Person(s) affected
  • All
  • Children
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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The right to just and favourable conditions of work (Art. 7) 2016, para. 6

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Article 7 identifies a non-exhaustive list of fundamental elements to guarantee just and favourable conditions of work. The reference to the term "in particular" indicates that other elements, not explicitly referred to, are also relevant. In this context, the Committee has systematically underlined factors such as the following: prohibition of forced labour and social and economic exploitation of children and young persons; freedom from violence and harassment, including sexual harassment; and paid maternity, paternity and parental leave.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Youth
Year
2016
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Right of everyone to take part in cultural life (Art. 15, para. 1(a)) 2009, para. 26

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Children play a fundamental role as the bearers and transmitters of cultural values from generation to generation. States parties should take all the steps necessary to stimulate and develop children's full potential in the area of cultural life, with due regard for the rights and responsibilities of their parents or guardians. In particular, when taking into consideration their obligations under the Covenant and other human rights instruments on the right to education, including with regard to the aims of education, States should recall that the fundamental aim of educational development is the transmission and enrichment of common cultural and moral values in which the individual and society find their identity and worth. Thus, education must be culturally appropriate, include human rights education, enable children to develop their personality and cultural identity and to learn and understand cultural values and practices of the communities to which they belong, as well as those of other communities and societies.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 2, para. 2) 2009, para. 16

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In determining whether a person is distinguished by one or more of the prohibited grounds, identification shall, if no justification exists to the contrary, be based upon self-identification by the individual concerned. Membership also includes association with a group characterized by one of the prohibited grounds (e.g. the parent of a child with a disability) or perception by others that an individual is part of such a group (e.g. a person has a similar skin colour or is a supporter of the rights of a particular group or a past member of a group).
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 2, para. 2) 2009, para. 11

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Discrimination is frequently encountered in families, workplaces, and other sectors of society. For example, actors in the private housing sector (e.g. private landlords, credit providers and public housing providers) may directly or indirectly deny access to housing or mortgages on the basis of ethnicity, marital status, disability or sexual orientation while some families may refuse to send girl children to school. States parties must therefore adopt measures, which should include legislation, to ensure that individuals and entities in the private sphere do not discriminate on prohibited grounds.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Girls
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights (Art. 2, para. 2) 2009, para. 5

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The preamble, Articles 1, paragraph 3, and 55, of the Charter of the United Nations and article 2, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights prohibit discrimination in the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. International treaties on racial discrimination, discrimination against women and the rights of refugees, stateless persons, children, migrant workers and members of their families, and persons with disabilities include the exercise of economic, social and cultural rights, while other treaties require the elimination of discrimination in specific fields, such as employment and education. In addition to the common provision on equality and non-discrimination in both the Covenant and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights contains an independent guarantee of equal and effective protection before and of the law.
Body
Committee on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights
Document type
General Comment / Recommendation
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Families
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2009
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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