Social Security: General Comment on the Human Right to Social Security
On 23 November 2007, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights adopted General Comment 19 on the Right to Social Security under article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. A General Comment is an authoritative statement by a treaty body of the content and application of a particular right and may be relevant both to the interpretation and application of international and domestic law and policy.
The General Comment adopts a number of recommendations and observations made by the Human Rights Law Resource Centre in our submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of June 2006 in relation to their Draft General Comment on the Right to Social Security under article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.