ERRC Advocacy Action Around the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Review of Hungary
ERRC Advocacy Action Around the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Review of Hungary

Summary/Abstract: In May 2007 the ERRC attended the 39th session of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR), at which the CESCR assessed the Hungarian government’s adherence and implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Prior to the session, the ERRC submitted a shadow report on the situation of Hungary’s Romani communities to the Committee (available online at: http: //www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=2138), which its members used as a counter reference point in their overall assessment of the government’s efforts. The ERRC also co-organised, with the Geneva-based NGO Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), a pre-sessional lunch meeting with the Committee Members at which the pertinent issues in each submitting organisation’s shadow reports were presented. [....]

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