TY  - JOUR
T1  - El Protocolo Facultativo del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales: comunicaciones de personas o grupos como piedra angular
A1  - Riquelme Cortado, Rosa María
PB  - Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales
YR  - 2012
UL  - http://biblioteca.ararteko.eus/Record/dialnet-ar-18-ART0000544513
AB  - On 10 December 2008, General Assembly proceeded to adopt the (First) Optional Protocol to
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which establishes as key procedure
the competence of the Committee to receive and review communications from individuals or groups of
individuals claiming to be victims of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant. The Protocol provides for
other monitoring mechanisms subject to express acceptance (opting in) to ensure compliance, namely the
submission of inter-state communications and a confidential inquiry procedure in cases of grave or
systematic violations of economic, social or cultural rights. Furthermore, it is envisaged the possibility to
trigger complementary measures of international assistance and cooperation, Trust Fund included, with
the consent of the State concerned. A certain frustration may nonetheless be felt at the fact that, in four
years since its adoption, the Protocol has not yet received the tenth instrument of ratification or accession
required to entry into force, being Spain, on 1 October 2012, the only Western European state listed
among the Contracting States.
KW  - procedimiento de investigación
KW  - asistencia y cooperación internacionales
KW  - fondo fiduciario
KW  - human Rights
KW  - Economic
KW  - Social and Cultural Rights
KW  - justiciability
KW  - communications from individuals
KW  - admissibility and examination of communications
KW  - inter-State communications
KW  - inquiry procedure
KW  - international assistance and cooperation
KW  - Trust Fund
KW  - derechos humanos
KW  - derechos económicos
KW  - sociales y culturales
KW  - justiciabilidad
KW  - presentación de comunicaciones de particulares
KW  - admisibilidad y examen
KW  - comunicaciones entre Estados
ER  -