Resources

In this section, you can find a series of useful material. 

The first and most important document for your work at the national and regional levels is our Advocacy Kit. The Advocacy Kit itself entails a list of Reference documents which you can obtain by clicking on the relevant hyperlinks. Find out more in Advocacy Kit 2005-2006...

Moreover, you will find below different types of texts from various sources (UN, NGOs, experts). In addition to these texts, you will find links to websites which will provide you with futher documents. 

This material should help you to follow the debate and the process towards the adoption of the OP-ICESCR and provide support for your national, regional and international advocacy work.

Coalition for an OP-ICESCR 

Advocacy Kit 2005-2006     Avocacy Kit 2005-2006 PDF

Written Submission of the NGO Coalition to the 2005 Open-Ended Working Group

Written Submission of the NGO Coalition to the 2006 Open-Ended Working Group

Summary and perspectives after the OEWG session 2006

UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for the elaboration of an OP-ICESCR-Third session (06-17 february 2006)

First Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Second Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Third Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Fourth Report of the NGO Coalition about the OEWG session 2006

Informe espanol No1 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

Informe espanol No2 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

Informe espanol No3 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

Informe espanol No4 de la Coalicion de las ONG sobre el Grupo de Trabajo 2006

NGO statements - compilation (PDF)

UN documents

Report of the February 2006 UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for an Optional Protocol

Report of the January 2005 UN Open-Ended Working Group to consider options for an Optional Protocol

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Office of the High Commissioner – Open-Ended Working Group web site

Speeches

Oral Statement of the NGO Coalition to the 2005 Open-Ended Working Group

Speech by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Louise Arbour, to the Open-Ended Working Group in January 2005

Speech by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Louise Arbour, at the LaFontaine-Baldwin lecture, Canada, 2005

Speech by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Louise Arbour, at the High Level Expert Seminar on the OP-ICESCR, Nantes, France, September 2005

Events

Concluding obsverations from the 2005 High Level Expert Seminar on the OP-ICESCR organised by the Government of France (advised by the International Commission of Jurists)

Report from the 2004 European Roundtable organised by the Government of Portugal and the International Commission of Jurists

Leuven Statement final document Expert Seminar 30 November 2001, Leuven – An Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Articles

Article by Bruce Porter, “The Right to be Heard- The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. What's at Stake-” (published in Human Rights Tribune, 2005)

NGO documents

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) – 50 Leading Cases on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights

COHRE – Adjudicating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ESCR-Net OP-ICESCR Resource Page

FIAN International – Optional Protocol Page

FIAN International – Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Right to Food Journal

International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) ESCR Facts Sheets

International Commission of Jurists Legal Resource Centre - ESCR

International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) Optional Protocol resources website