UN RIGHTS CHIEF HAILS NEW TREATY PROTECTING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL RIGHTS

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UN RIGHTS CHIEF HAILS NEW TREATY PROTECTING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, CULTURAL
RIGHTSNew York, May 6 2013 3:00PMThe United Nations human rights
chief today welcomed the birth of a new mechanism which will empower
individuals to seek out justice when their rights to food, adequate
housing, education or health are violated.

The new measure, which came into force on 5 May, is known as the
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/OPCESCR.aspx"><I>Optional
Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights</I>. It will allow individuals or groups to file a
complaint with the UN if their rights are infringed by a Member State
that is party to the Protocol, lifting these rights to equal standing
with all other human rights protected within the panoply of
international law.

In a <"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13300&LangID=E">statement
celebrating the occasion as "a major advance," UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, voiced hope that the Protocol would
finally fill a long-time gap in international law.

"Egregious violations of economic, social and cultural rights are
occurring, often unnoticed, on a daily basis, which in the area of
civil and political rights would have been immediately condemned,"
said Ms. Pillay in a news release.

"This Protocol will help to address this imbalance."

According to the Protocol, citizens of signatory nations will be
permitted to appeal to the UN's Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights on specific rights-related cases after they have
exhausted all attempts to find justice in their respective country.

In addition, the Protocol grants the Committee authorization to
conduct inquiries if it receives reliable information indicating
"grave or systematic violations by a State party of any of the rights
covered by the Covenant," the statement read.

"I am confident that these mechanisms will make it possible for the
Committee to assist States and other stakeholders to get to the root
causes of violations of economic, social and cultural rights," the
High Commissioner continued.

The Protocol took effect three months after Uruguay became the
required tenth country to ratify it – joining Argentina, Bolivia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mongolia, Portugal,
Slovakia and Spain.

Ms. Pillay welcomed Uruguay's signing back in February and urged other
States among the 160 that are already party to the Covenant to ratify
the Optional Protocol as soon as possible.

"The Protocol makes a strong and unequivocal statement about the equal
value and importance of all human rights and the need for strengthened
legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights in
particular," Ms. Pillay stated.May 6 2013 3:00PM
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