Publications
Rights of persons with disabilities Article 15 of the Revised European Social Charter-Factsheet
How can NHRIs and NEBs engage with the European Committee of Social Rights under the monitoring procedures of the European Social Charter
This guide, prepared by the Secretariat of the European Social Charter, aims to explain the monitoring procedures of the European Social Charter and to clarify how NHRIs and NEBs can engage with the European Committee of Social Rights under the two monitoring procedures of the European Social Charter: the reporting procedure and the collective complaints procedure.
Available in English | French (available soon)
How can (I)NGOs engage with the European Committee of Social Rights under the monitoring procedures of the European Social Charter
The brochure, prepared by Claire Lougarre, Lecturer in Human Rights Law at Southampton Law School and the Director of the research centre Health, Ethics and Law (HEAL), aims to clarify how national and international non-governmental organisations can engage with the European Committee of Social Rights under the two monitoring procedures of the European Social Charter: the reporting procedure and the collective complaints procedure.
Available in English | French (available soon)
Against Ageism and Towards Active Social Citizenship for Older Persons. The Current Use and Future Potential of the European Social Charter
This study, written by Gerard Quinn, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and Israel (Issi) Doron, Head of the Centre for Research and Study of Ageing, University of Haifa, Israel, aims to provide guidance on how to improve the situation of older people in Europe; how the various international human rights standards can be optimised to uphold the rights of older people; and how they can inform national policies to ensure respect for dignity, equality and non-discrimination. The study also analyses the role of different stakeholders - governments, civil society, national human rights institutions, equality bodies - and whether and how the European Social Charter can empower them to interact effectively to move Europe away from the ageist laws and policies of the past.
Manual on preparation of National Reports on Accepted Provisions under the Reporting Procedure of the European Social Charter
This manual, prepared by Danuta Wisniewska-Cazals, Secretary of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC), is aimed at national authorities to help them prepare the national reports submitted by states every year on the application of the European Social Charter at national level.
Available in English
Procedure on non-accepted provisions of the European Social Charter
The publication, prepared by Danuta Wisniewska-Cazals, Secretary of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC), explains the procedure provided for by Article 22 of the European Social Charter on “non-accepted provisions” in general with a specific focus on Ukraine.
Protecting the Child from Poverty: The Role of Rights in the Council of Europe
The report, prepared by Aoife Nolan, Vice-President of the European Committee of Social Rights and Professor of International Human Rights Law, presents how the European Social Charter as interpreted by the European Committee of Social Rights can serve as a framework or roadmap for state efforts to combat child poverty.
The European Pillar of Social Rights and the role of the European Social Charter in the EU legal order
The study, prepared by Olivier de Schutter, Professor at UCLouvain and SciencesPo and Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, aims at exploring the contribution of the European Pillar of Social Rights to the protection and promotion of social rights in the European Union, and how synergies could be built in the future with the European Social Charter of the Council of Europe.
The Turin Process for European Social Charter
Official speeches and interventions of the Interparliamentary Conference on the European Social Charter and the Turin Forum on Social Rights in Europe
This publication is a collection of the official speeches and interventions of the Interparliamentary Conference on the European Social Charter and the Turin Forum on Social Rights in Europe, held in Turin on 17 and 18 March 2016, organised in the framework of the Turin Process for the European Social Charter.
Rights of persons with disabilities
Publication of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe (2015)
The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on states’ obligations as set out in Article 15 of the European Social Charter, in other words to read this article in the light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Tell me, what is the European Social Charter?
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European Social Charter: the Turin Process
Seminar, held in Strasbourg on 4 December 2014, in honour of Luis Jimena Quesada, President of the European Committee of Social Rights (2011-2014) Rüçhan Isik, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Jarna Petman, Members of the Committee.
Transcription from audio recording of the debates.
European Social Charter: discretion of the States
Seminar, held in Strasbourg on 6 December 2012, in honour of Jean-Michel Belorgey, President of the European Committee of Social Rights (2002-2006) and General Rapporteur of the Committee, Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky and Andrzej Świątkowski, Members of the European Committee of Social Rights.
Transcription from audio recording of the debates.
Protecting Migrants under the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter Process
This handbook is intended as a tool for legal practitioners (lawyers, judges, public officials, human rights defenders) to better understand the European human rights of migrants and the means to claim their respect or implementation at national and international level.
The handbook focuses on the Council of Europe’s activities concerning migrants, which concern all 47 member States of the Organisation.
Second edition: English | French | Greek | Spanish | Turkish
Recent developments in the collective complaints procedure of the European Social Charter
Workshop, held in Strasbourg on 29 November 2010, in honour of Mrs Polonca KONČAR, Member of the European Committee of Social Rights(2000-2010) and President of the Committee (2006-2010).
Transcription from audio recording of the debates.
The European Social Charter
by Carole Benelhocine (2012)
The 50th anniversary of the European Social Charter presents the opportunity for a comprehensive and informative review of one of the Council of Europe's fundamental treaties.What are its origins? Which states does it cover? What are its strengths? What are the new challenges that the Charter needs to address?This dynamic and accessible publication allows the reader to find out more about an instrument that is of vital importance for the protection of human rights in Europe and elsewhere.
The European Committee of Social Rights publishes its Conclusions on Labour Rights
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