Resumen

SEATZU, Francesco. Interpretation of the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Rules, Hermeneutical Criteria and Comparisons. Anu. Mex. Der. Inter [online]. 2012, vol.12, pp.339-364. ISSN 1870-4654.

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ("ICESCR") confers on the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ("CESCR") a very broad jurisdiction to give a non-binding interpretation of the Covenant itself. The CESCR has used two main tools to elucidate the different types of obligations under the ICESCR, States Reports and General Comments. Since its seventh session, in 1992, the CESCR started adopting Concluding Observations regarding submitted State reports. This practice allows the Committee to provide more specific analysis of States' performance, the degree of their accomplishment, but also identifies forms of violations of economic, social and cultural rights ("ESCR") and gives detailed recommendations concerning the possible ways of protecting rights with specific examples. The extensive practice of the CESCR has therefore contributed to a wide interpretation of ESCR that may be applied to all ESCR. The second tool available to the CESCR is the publication of General Comments and Statements.

Palabras llave : International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

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