Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concludes forty fourth session

PROVISIONAL ROUNDUP

21 May 2010

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Colombia, Algeria, Mauritius, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded its forty-fourth session today after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Colombia, Algeria, Mauritius, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan.

The countries considered by the Committee are among the 160 States parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which are required to submit periodic reports to the Committee on their efforts to implement the provisions of the treaty, which entered into force in 1976.

The Committee will release next week its concluding observations on the five countries whose reports it reviewed, and they will be made available on the session’s web page in the rightmost column.

The next session of the Committee will be held from 1 to 19 November 2010, at which time it will take up reports from the Netherlands, Switzerland, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and Sri Lanka.

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