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Draft Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• Human Rights Council Resolution 8/2: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2008) [advance unedited version]
• Report of the Secretary-General in response to Commission resolution 2003/18 [E/CN.4/2004/WG.23/2]
• Report of the independent expert on the question of a draft optional protocol [E/CN.4/2003/53] (2003)
• Report of the open-ended working group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its first session [E/CN.4/2004/44]
• Comparative summary of existing communications and inquiry procedures and practices under international human rights instruments and under the United Nations system: Report of the Secretary-General [E/CN.4/2005/WG.23/2]
• Report of the independent expert on the question of a draft optional protocol[E/CN.4/2003/53/Corr.1] (2003)
• Report of the open-ended working group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its second session [E/CN.4/2005/52]
• Commission on Human Rights Resolution 2005/22: Question of the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights [E/2005/23, resolution 2005/22] (2005)
• Report of the independent expert on the question of a draft optional protocol [E/CN.4/2003/53/Corr.2] (2003)
• Elements for an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Analytical paper by the Chairperson-Rapporteur, Catarina de Albuquerque [E/CN.4/2006/WG.23/2]
• Report of the open-ended working group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its third session [E/CN.4/2006/47]
• Human Rights Council Resolution 1/3: Open-ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [A/61/53, resolution 1/3] (2006)
  
• Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, prepared by the Chairperson-Rapporteur, Catarina de Albuquerque [A/HRC/6/WG.4/2]
• Report of the Open ended Working Group on an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its fourth session [A/HRC/6/8]
• An evaluation of the obligation to take steps to the “maximum of available resources” under an Optional Protocol to the Covenant [E/C.12/2007/1]