Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Rights
Abstract
This Introductory Note to the publication in ILM of the newly-adopted Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR) seeks to put the primary source document in proper context by briefly explaining its history, content, and significance in international law. The Note is accompanied by the text of the OP-ICESCR, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The OP creates an individual complaints procedure for alleged violations of the ICESCR, rectifying a thirty year asymmetry in human rights treaty law.
Publication Title
International Legal Materials
First Page
256
Last Page
267
Recommended Citation
Tara J. Melish,
Introductory Note to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
48
ILM
256
(2009).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/116