Behind the Scenes Action: Learning from a Collective Process

Almost two decades after ratifying the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), India came up for review by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) in May 2008. PWESCR initiated a collective process under the broad umbrella of People's Collective on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (the Collective) and prepared a NGO report to present to the CESCR for consideration during the review in Geneva. The Collective comprised a range of organisations working on human rights issues, although not necessarily articulating their work within the economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) framework. URL: [http://www.pwescr.org/learning_collective_effort.pdf]