Economic social and cultural rights action
Posted on September 29, 2011 by Human Rights Online Philippines
> continueHuman rights proponents have identified gaps in human rights protection which have become more severe in the context of globalisation during the past 20 years. The ETO Consortium is a network of human rights related NGOs, university institutes and institution-based individuals.
> continueOn July 26th, 2011 the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia gave approval for ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Bolivia will be formally bound by the treaty once it deposits its instrument of ratification with the United Nations Secretariat.
> continueTribals, the ethnic minority of Kerala, constitute one percent of the state’s population. Formation of the state in 1956 and the division of the state into different districts horizontally left the tribal population of Kerala scattered, mostly in hilly areas. They started facing problems of existence with the encroachment of their ancestral land by powerful settlers from the plains, starting from pre-independence days. PANIYA, the labourers constitute the major share of the 37 tribes of this state.
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