[ESCR-Net ] New Publication: Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Duncan Steblyna
New Publication: Climate Change in the Work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Geneva Office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), Habitats International's Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), Center for Interntional Envrionmental Law (CIEL)
Report authors: Marcos A. Orellana, Miloon Kothari, Shivani Chaudry
Published May 2010
"The paper at hand comes as a realization of one of the recommendations that were given at an initial workshop in January 2009, where a groups of experts on environmental law, international and human rights law and representatives of human rights organizations were brought together by CIEL and FES to explore in-depth the impacts of that global warming is and will be having on the enjoyment of human rights and how human rights regime could respond to these new threats. As a result, different recommendations were formulated as to how the human rights agenda could be promoted vis-à-vis the climate negotiations and, no less importantly, how the human rights actors such as the Special Procedures, the different UN Committees and in particular the CESCR."
"This paper describes how the Climate Change and Human Rights issues has developed in practice and analyzes how it may be applied in the work of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In particular, the paper elaborates on the linkages between climate change and economic social and cultural rights within the broader human rights and environment framework. Clarification of these linkages is useful for, inter alia: the consideration of reports and formulation of concluding observations; the elaboration of statements; the handling of complaints under the Optional Protocol; and the organization of a day of general discussion on the climate change and human rights interface."
Dowload pdf copy: http://www.fes-globalization.org/geneva/documents/CESCR%20Climate%20Change_May2010.pdf
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