Joint Committee On Human Rights - Twenty-First Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Work of the JCHR
The Covenant
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights
The UK Report
Progress of this Inquiry
2 Economic and
social rights in the UK
Status of the ICESCR in UK law
Legislative protection of economic, social
and cultural rights
The limitations of legislative protection
Protection for ESC rights under the HRA
The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Popular attitudes towards economic and social
rights
The Northern Ireland Draft Bill of Rights
3 Comparative
Approaches to Economic and Social Rights Protection
The South African Constitution 1996
Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court
India
4 The Status of
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Progressive Realisation of Rights
Legal Incorporation of the Covenant Rights
The government view
The view of the CESCR
Economic, social and cultural rights and
determinacy
Economic, social and cultural rights and
democracy
Economic, social and cultural rights and
resource allocation
Incorporation of the Covenant rights in UK
law?
5 Economic, social
and cultural rights in policy development
Economic, social and cultural rights
within government
A human rights plan of action
Protection of the Covenant rights in Parliament
6 Protection of
the Covenant rights by a Commission for Equality and Human Rights
7 Poverty, inequality
and access to services
A free-standing right to equality
Rights of individual petition
Homelessness
Access to Higher Education
Religious segregation of education in Northern
Ireland
8 Workplace rights
The national minimum wage
The right to strike
Collective bargaining
9 Family life
rights
Physical punishment of children
10 The reporting
process
Departmental responsibility for the ICESCR
Co-ordination between departments
Co-ordination with the devolved administrations
The role of human rights commissions
Liaison with NGOs, civil society and the
public
11 Conclusion
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
Monday 15 September 2003
List of Written Evidence
Written evidence
Reports from the Joint Committee on Human
Rights since 2001
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