Social Rights

The European Committee of Social Right (ECSR) will present its Conclusions and Findings for 2023 on Wednesday 20 March 2024 (11:30-12:30 am CET) during a  press conference which will be also broadcasted live.

Within the framework of the reporting procedure, the Committee examined 34 state reports relating to provisions of the European Social Charter belonging to the thematic group “Children, Families, and Migrants” including:

• the right of children and young persons to protection (Article 7);
• the right of employed women to protection of maternity (Article 8);
• the right of the family to social, legal, and economic protection (Article 16);
• the right of children and young persons to social, legal, and economic protection (Article 17);
• the right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance (Article 19);
• the right of workers with family responsibilities to equal opportunity and treatment (Article 27);
• the right to housing (Article 31)

The following countries were examined : Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway,  Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

On the same occasion, the ECSR will also publish its Findings for 2023, which contain assessments of follow-up regarding 58 decisions in collective complaints concerning eight countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Portugal.

Link to the live transmission

Press Contact: Dušan Vojnović , tel. + 33 6 61 03 83 00