Sentences with phrase «cultural rights»

The right to development is specifically directed towards the goal of realizing the economic, social, and cultural rights of people.
This recognition could become even more limited with climate change, as there is expected to be a significant threat to cultural rights as a result.
It incorporates the social, economic and cultural rights alongside the civil and political rights.
It decided to promote all rights in the universal declaration of human rights in 1991 and ten years later began work on economic, social and cultural rights too.
To do this I will look an apparent clash of different human rights standards, namely cultural rights and women's rights.
The right to water is intricately related to the preservation of a number of rights protected through the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [37](ICESCR).
Everyone «is entitled to realization, through national effort and international cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.»
Canadian investments in Asia can, for example, support human rights through the protection of economic rights such as safe labour conditions, social rights such as healthcare, and cultural rights such as protection of local languages and customs.
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At the global level, Article 13 of the United Nations» 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises the right of everyone to an education.
This trend was evident years ago when the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights ticked off as rights a list of what would more accurately be described as human aspirations and desires.
This tradition stressed civil and political rights and generally neglected the social and economic and cultural rights required for these civil and political rights to be realized even in Europe.
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«Similarly, Common Article 1 to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stipulates an imperative prohibition against depriving a people of its own means of subsistence.»
Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantees everyone the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.
The right to education was first entrenched in the article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 (10) and was given effect by article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966 (11) so as to attain a binding authority.
Beyond the Narmada valley, Medha Patkar has played a crucial role in empowering people struggling to protect their civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights across India.
Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham called on the government to adopt a «Hillsborough law» to bring an end to the uneven playing field for bereaved families at inquests, and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reported that the reforms to the legal aid system and the introduction of employment tribunal fees have restricted access to justice, particularly impacting disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and groups.
I am grateful, first, to Robert Cryer, Carsten Stahn and Larissa Van den Herik for the thoughtfulness with which they have engaged with my book Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights sets out a comprehensive framework of human rights obligations relating to such matters.
For example, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights urged State parties «to consult and seek the consent of the indigenous peoples concerned prior to the implementation of timber, soil or subsoil mining projects and on any public policy affecting them, in accordance with ILO Convention No. 169.
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also notes that for housing to be «adequate» it must be affordable; culturally adequate; habitable; accessible, especially to marginalised and disadvantaged groups; and located in an area which allows access to employment, health - care, schools, childcare centres and other social facilities.
Cultural rights directly impact on a child's ability to meaningfully enjoy every other human right and freedom, let alone their health.
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights says that «it is important to distinguish the inability from the unwillingness of a government to comply with its obligations.
The right to health, indeed economic, social and cultural rights overall, also include guidelines as to how states are to ensure rights — like to health — are respected in a context where, historically, they have not been.
The third element of Article 2 (1) highlights the importance of appropriate measures, including passing of beneficial legislation, for the realization of the economic, social and cultural rights enshrined in ICESCR.
Principles relating to self - determination, non-discrimination, equality before the law and minority group cultural rights have been interpreted as requiring governments to work with Indigenous peoples in a fair and open manner.
That the claimants constitute an identifiable community or group and are the most appropriate people to assert cultural rights and interests for the area;
The Guidelines also state that alternatively it may be possible to recognise rights «that do not equate to native title rights but nevertheless establish that a particular Indigenous group has the primary cultural right to a particular place or area and that such rights will be recognised under an Indigenous Land Use Agreement».
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