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"UN: International Covenant on Economic, Social Cultural Rights, 1996" [2005] ELECD 239; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 16

Section Title: UN: International Covenant on Economic, Social Cultural Rights, 1996

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

16. UN: International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, 1966

Commentary: The ICESCR (1966) 993 UNTS 3 (entry into force 1976) is admin-
istered by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a body of inde-
pendent experts which evaluates government reports concerning progressive
implementation and issues general comments interpreting particular provisions. The
Committee cannot consider individual complaints, although a draft Optional Protocol
has been under consideration for a lengthy period. See further, www.ohchr.org. For
the application of economic, social and cultural rights to corporations under the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, see African Commission on Human and
Peoples' Rights, Social and Economic Rights Action Centre & the Centre for Economic and
Social Rights v Nigeria, Communication No 55 (1996). On violations, see the 1997
Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1998) 20
Human Rights Quarterly 691. For academic commentary, see Scott C. (2001), `MNEs
and emergent jurisprudence on violations of economic, social and cultural rights', in
Eide A., C. Krause and A. Rosas (eds), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook,
Kluwer: The Hague (2nd edn) pp. 563­95.



Article 1
1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely
determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural
development.
2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources
without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation,
based upon ...