10th anniversary of the Revised Charter

The European Social Charter: the next 10 years

Seminar to mark the tenth anniversary of the European Social Charter (revised)
3 May 2006, Strasbourg, Palais de l'Europe

Programme

Morning

Chair: Mr Bernard Marquet, President of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee, Parliamentary Assembly

Moderator: Mrs Jane Dinsdale, Director General ad interim, Directorate General of Human Rights

The Social Charter's implementation in the member States

The role of the executive and the legislature

Ms Christina Zorlin, Director. Directorate for Sectorial Operational Programme for Human Resources Development, Ministry of Labour, Bucharest, Romania

The role of the judiciary

Professor Martin Scheinin. Professor of constitutional and international law, Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademie University, Finland

Ceremony, Foyer of the Committee of Ministers

Address delivered at the commemoration ceremony of the 10 anniversary of the Revised Charter, Foyer of the Committee of Ministers

Afternoon

Chair: Mr Vojtech Tkac, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Parliamentary Assembly

Moderator: Mr Philippe BOILLAT, Director, Directorate General of Human Rights

The Social Charter and the European Convention on Human Rights

Introductory report

Professor Jean-François Akandji-Kombe. Director, Master Programme on Fundamental Rights, Caen University, France

The Social Charter and the European Union

Introductory report (French only)

Professor Olivier de Schutter. Louvain Catholic University, Belgium

Closing session

General Report

Mr Colm O'Cinneide. University College, London, United Kingdom

The European Social Charter
a guardian of our social rights

Shortcuts

Treaties

Coming events

Back Taking Stock of the European Social Charter at 60

The University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre, together with the  Roma Tre Centro Internazionale di Ricerca ‘Diritto e Globalizzazione’ and with the support of the European Social Charter Department of the Council of Europe, invite you to the 1st event, organised in the framework of the 60th anniversary of the 1961 European Social Charter. Featuring expert speakers, this workshop focused on ‘taking stock’ of the Charter and the work of its supervisory body – the European Committee of Social Rights – so far.  The event took place online on 28 April, 10:00-13:30 GMT. The working language was English.

The European Social Charter system is the oldest and most wide-ranging instrument providing for social rights in Europe. From the gender pay gap to the rights of migrants and unaccompanied children, from older persons’ rights to right to strike, the Charter has proved a living instrument capable of engaging with the challenges faced by Europeans in the 60 years since its adoption. Despite this, the system remains frequently neglected and misunderstood both by social rights and human rights law actors. This event will both celebrate and critique the European Social Charter system in light of the legal, social and political factors that have shaped it since 1961.  

Speakers addressed:

Key thematic areas in terms of the European Social Charter, including older person’s rights, children’s rights, the right to health, and equality and non-discrimination
The European Social Charter’s contribution to a European model of social rights
Key institutional developments throughout the history of the system and the reasons for those developments

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