14
INTRODUCTION
20
CESCR General Comment No. 3 on the Nature of States Parties’ Obligations, UN doc.
E/1991/23, Annex III, 1990, para. 2. Notably, the ACHPR makes no reference to progressive realization.
21
See generally, ibid., paras. 9 and 10.
22
Ibid., para. 12.
23
CESCR General Comment No.15 on the Right to Water, UN doc. E/C.12/2002/11, para.
37. On core obligations see also, Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign and
Others, CCT 8/02 Judgement, 5 July 2002, Constitutional Court of South Africa, paras.
26-29.
24
Ibid., para. 1.
25
CESCR General Comment No. 3, op.cit., para. 10; CESCR Statement on Poverty and the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN doc.
E/C.12/2001/10, paras. 15–18.
26
CESCR General Comment No. 3, op.cit., para. 9.
27
Ibid.
28
See for example, CESCR General Comment No. 4 on the Right to Adequate Housing, UN
29
See generally, Alston, P., `Thematic Hearing before Inter-American Commission on
doc. E/1992/23, annex III at 114, 1991, para. 8(g).
Human Rights’, Strategies and Frameworks for Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights in the Individual Petitions Process, 3 March 2004. Available at: www.nyuhr.org CRC
General Comment No. 5 on General Measures of Implementation of the Convention on
the Rights of the Child, UN doc. CRC/GC/2003/5, para. 51.
30 CESCR General Comment No. 2 on International Technical Assistance Measures, UN
doc. E/1990/23, annex III at 86, 1990, para. 9
31
‘Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Guideline
32
Notably assistance need not only be financial in nature, see, CESCR General Comment
4’, 20 Human Rights Quarterly 3 (1998) 691 at 694–5.
No. 2, op.cit.; Draft report of the CESCR to ECOSOC, UN doc. E/C.12/2003/CRP.1,
Section V.A, para. 4.
33 CESCR General Comment No. 3, op.cit., para. 13.
34
Ibid., para. 10.
35 Ibid., para. 11.
36 CRC General Comment No. 5 on General Measures of Implementation, op.cit., paras. 7-8.
37
CESCR Concluding Observations on Morocco, UN doc. E/C.12/1Add.55, 2000, para. 38.
38 CESCR Concluding Observations on Belgium, UN doc. E/C.12/1/Add.54, 2000, para. 31;
and on Italy UN doc. E/C.12/1/Add.43, 2000, para. 20.
39 CRC General Comment No. 5 on General Measures of Implementation, op.cit., para. 61.
40
Eide, A., ‘Realization of social and economic rights and the minimum threshold
approach’, 10 Human Rights Law Journal, Nos. 1–2, 1989, 35 at 37; ‘Maastricht
Guidelines, op.cit., 691 at 691; see also, CESCR General Comment No.12 on the Right to