Comments on: OP-ICESCR: Australia Can Provide International Leadership and Ratify OP-ICESCR (July 2009) http://www.hrlc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-leadership-and-ratify-op-icescr-july-2009/ Australia’s first specialist human rights legal service Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: HRLRC Bulletin Vol 42 – October 2009 | Human Rights Law Resource Centre http://www.hrlc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-leadership-and-ratify-op-icescr-july-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-51 HRLRC Bulletin Vol 42 – October 2009 | Human Rights Law Resource Centre Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:41:41 +0000 http://www.hrlrc.org.au/?p=3310#comment-51 [...] Australia has missed an important opportunity to demonstrate international human rights leadership and to affirm the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights by failing to sign the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the official signing ceremony for that instrument in New York on 24 September 2009. The HRLRC urges the Government to continue to consider the Optional Protocol and to prioritise its signature and ratification. The HRLRC’s submissions to the Australian Government as to why ratification of the OP-ICESCR is in the national interest are at http://www.hrlrc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-lead.... [...] [...] Australia has missed an important opportunity to demonstrate international human rights leadership and to affirm the indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights by failing to sign the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the official signing ceremony for that instrument in New York on 24 September 2009. The HRLRC urges the Government to continue to consider the Optional Protocol and to prioritise its signature and ratification. The HRLRC’s submissions to the Australian Government as to why ratification of the OP-ICESCR is in the national interest are at http://www.hrlrc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-lead…. [...]

]]> By: HRLRC Bulletin Vol 40 – August 2009 | Human Rights Law Resource Centre http://www.hrlc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-leadership-and-ratify-op-icescr-july-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-43 HRLRC Bulletin Vol 40 – August 2009 | Human Rights Law Resource Centre Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:09:33 +0000 http://www.hrlrc.org.au/?p=3310#comment-43 [...] The submission is available at http://www.hrlrc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-lead....  [...] [...] The submission is available at http://www.hrlrc.org.au/content/topics/esc-rights/op-icescr-australia-can-provide-international-lead….  [...]

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