Human Rights Education Associates

Primer on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Author

The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific, and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions

Publisher

The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Place of Publication

Geneva, Switzerland

Year of Publication

2010

Language

English, French, Russian, Arabic

The goal of this resource is to serve as an advocacy tool for engagement with the monitoring bodies of the Convention on the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) to more explicitly recognize the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights as a strategy to increase women’s equality.
NFE: Women
Freedom from discrimination, Right to culture, Right to food & water, Right to health, Right to housing, Right to work

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