New UN rights mechanism takes effect

[JURIST] A human rights mechanism took effect Sunday that will allow a UN committee to review complaints from people or groups who have exhausted every option for justice in their own country regarding economic, social and cultural rights violations. The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol) [text] requires that after the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Committee) [official website] examines a complaint, it must transit its views, as well as recommendations,...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/new-un-rights-mechanism-takes-effect.php

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