Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
Background | 47th Session, 2011 | 30th Session, 2003 | 26th Session, 2001 | 19th Session, 1998
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Signed by Israel: 19 December 1966
Ratified by Israel: 3 October 1991
The 47th Session of CESCR, 14 November - 2 December 2011
Concluding Observations (December 2011)
List of Issues (September 2010)
Israel - Third Periodic State Party Report (.doc) (September 2011)
Adalah's Second NGO Report (October 2011)
Adalah's NGO Report (October 2010)
Press Release (26 November 2011): Adalah Participates in UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Review of Israel in Geneva
UN Press Release (14 November 2011): Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights holds discussion with NGOs, notes Adalah's participation
Press Release (25 October 2011): Adalah Submits New Report to UN on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Arab Citizens of Israel
Press Release (10 January 2011): UN Committee Poses Tough Questions to Israel on Rights of Arab Bedouin in the Naqab, Iqrit and Bir'im, the JNF and the Use of Military Service to Exclude Arab Citizens from Employment
Press Release (28 October 2010): Adalah submits NGO Report to UN on Israel's lack of implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; UN Committee to hold preliminary review of Israel in November 2010
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The 30th Session of CESCR, 5-23 May 2003
Concluding Observations (June 2003)
List of Issues (June 2002)
Adalah's NGO Report (May 2003): Social and Economic Rights | Education Rights | Land and Housing Rights
Press Release (28 May 2003): UN Committee Deeply Concerned about Persisting Inequalities between Jewish and Arab Citizens of Israel
The 26th Session of CESCR, 13-31 August 2001
Concluding Observations (August 2001)
Israel Second Periodic State Party Report (October 2001)
Additional Information from State Party (May 2001)
Letter to Israel from the UN CESCR following the 24th Session (November - December 2000)
Adalah's NGO Report (November 2000)
Press Release (21 May 2001): The UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Condemns Israel's Violations of International Human Rights Law
The 19th Session of CESCR, 16 November - 4 December 1998
Concluding Observations (December 1998)
Adalah's NGO Report (November 1998)
