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CESCR - The Right to take part in cultural life (Article 15(1)(a)) (2008) - Background Papers

  • E/C.12/40/11 (2008) [Organización internacional para el derecho a la educación y la libertad de enseñanza (OIDEL)]
  • E/C.12/40/14 (2008) [Mme. Annelise Oeschger]
  • E/C.12/40/16 (2008) [Mr. Edwin R. Harvey]
  • E/C.12/40/3 (2008) [Mr. Christian Groni]
  • E/C.12/40/4 (2008) [Julie Ringelheim, Centre for Legal Philosophy at the University of Louvain (UCL)]
  • E/C.12/40/5 (2008) French Only [Dr Julie Ringelheim, Centre de philosophie du droit de l’Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgique]
  • E/C.12/40/6 (2008) [Mr. Joost Smiers, Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands]
  • E/C.12/40/7 (2008) [International Commission of Jurists]
  • E/C.12/40/8 (2008) French Only [M. Patrice Meyer-Bisch, Université de Fribourg]
  • E/C.12/40/9 (2008) [Ms. Elissavet Stamatopoulou, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs]
  • E/C.12/40/10 (2008) [International Women’s Rights Action Watch]
  • E/C.12/40/12 (2008) [International Labour Organization]
  • E/C.12/40/13 (2008) [Dr Yvonne Donders, Law Faculty of the University of Amsterdam]
  • E/C.12/40/15 (2008) [Mr. Patrick Thornberry, Keele University and University of Oxford]
  • E/C.12/40/17 (2008) [Mr. Eprhaim Nimni, Queen’s University Belfast]

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    CESCR, CEDAW, CRC, CMW and CRPD hold "Days of General Discussion", and CERD holds “Thematic Discussions”. The Committee holds a discussion of a different topic on each of these Days, and may publish the results of the discussion in its annual or session report. Usually a number of background papers are submitted and published for the Day of Discussion.