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E/C.12/2001/10 page 7 13 General Comment Nos. 11, 13 and 14 respectively. 14 General Comment No. 14, para. 47. 15 General Comment No. 14, para. 45. The Covenant refers to “international assistance and cooperation”, or similar formulations, in articles 2.1, 11.2, 15.4, 22 and 23. 16 Such as those anticipated by the World Summit for Social Development (1995) and the more recent Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. For a recent examination of national poverty eradication plans see UNDP, Poverty Report 2000: Overcoming Human Poverty. 17 Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.” Article 3.3 of the Declaration on the Right to Development: “States have the duty to cooperate with each other in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development.” -----

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SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES ARISING IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS: POVERTY AND THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

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Right to adequate housing
Right to adequate standard of living
Right to development
Right to education
Right to food
Right to health
Right to take part in cultural life
Right to work
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rights of the child
Rights of women and girls

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Accountability
Extraterritorial obligations
Minimum core obligations
Non-discrimination
Participation
Progressive realization
Transparency

International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: May 10, 2001

Document Summary: The present statement is aimed at encouraging the integration of human rights into poverty eradication policies by outlining how human rights generally, and the Covenant in particular, can empower the poor and enhance anti-poverty strategies. Poverty is not confined to developing countries and societies in transition, it is a global phenomenon experienced in varying degrees by all States. The Committee wishes to emphasize three points. First, because core obligations are non-derogable, they continue to exist in situations of conflict, emergency and natural disaster. Second, because poverty is a global phenomenon, core obligations have great relevance to some individuals and communities living in the richest States. Third, after a State party has ensured the core obligations of economic, social and cultural rights, it continues to have an obligation to move as expeditiously and effectively as possible towards the full realization of all the rights in the Covenant.

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