When Right Equals Rights

Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action: Report of the World Conference on Human Rights, UN Doc A/CONF.157/23, art 1 (1993).

Opened for signature 16 December 1966, 999 UNTS 3 (entered into force 3 January 1976).

Leckie Scott , ‘Another Step Towards Indivisibility: Identifying the Key Features of Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ (1998) 20(1) Human Rights Quarterly 82.

Charter of the United Nations, arts 55, 56.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, GA Res 217 A (III), UN GAOR, 3rd sess, 183rd plen mtg (1948); Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened for signature 20 November 1989, 1577 UNTS 43 (entered into force 2 September 1990). Although the UDHR is not a legally binding document, it is widely regarded as an authoritative interpretation of the human rights provisions within the UN Charter and therefore has been accorded special weight in the consideration of the meaning of art 55.

International Conference on Human Rights, Proclamation of Tehran, A/CONF.32/41 (1968), endorsed by Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, GA Res 2442 (XXIII), UN GAOR, 23rd sess, 1705th plen mtg, UN Doc A/RES/2391 (III) (19 December 1968).

CESCR, General Comment 3: The Nature of States Parties' Obligations, UN Doc HRI/GEN/1/Rev.5, [14] (2001) (‘General Comment 3’).

Ibid [10]; CESCR, Substantive Issues Arising in the Implementation of the International Covenant in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Poverty and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Doc E/C.12/2001/10, 4–5, [15]–[18] (2001).

Ibid [13]. See also CESCR, General Comment 2: International Technical Assistance Measures, UN Doc HRI/GEN/1/Rev.5, [10] (2001).

CESCR, General Comment 12: The Right to Adequate Food, UN Doc HRI/GEN/1/Rev.5, 66, [36] (2001).

CESCR, General Comment 15: The Right to Water, UN Doc E/C.12/2002/11 12, [34] (2002).

CESCR, General Comment 15: The Right to Water, UN Doc E/C.12/2002/11, [17]–[29] (2002). See also CESCR, General Comment 12: The Right to Adequate Food, UN Doc HRI/GEN/1/Rev.5, 66, [15] (2001) and CESCR, General Comment 13: The Right to Education, UN Doc HRI/GEN/1/Rev.5, 74, [47] (2001).

Food and Agriculture Organisation, ‘The Numbers: SOFI 2004 Hunger Statistics’ FAO Newsroom <www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2004/51786/article_51791en.html> at 2 August 2005.

See generally, Sen Amartya , Development as Freedom (1999).

UNAIDS/World Health Organization, AIDS Epidemic Update (2004) 5.

World Health Organization, World Health Report (2004) 21.

Opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1869 UNTS 299 (entered into force 1 January 1995).

See Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health, WT/MIN(01)DEC/2 (adopted 14 November 2001).

Aksoy Ataman M Beghin John C (eds), Global Agricultural Trade and Developing Countries (2005).

Based on International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, GA Res 2626 (XXV), UN GAOR, 25th sess, 1912th plen mtg (1970).

CESCR, Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: France, UN Doc E/C.12/1/Add.72, [24] (2001).

United Nations Millennium Declaration, GA Res 55/2, 55th sess, Agenda Item 60(b), UN Doc A/RES/55/2 (2000).

Australia ratified ICESCR on 10 December 1975.

AusAID, ‘Why Australia Gives Aid’, AudAID website <www.ausaid.gov.au/makediff/whatis.cfm#why> at 1 July 2005.

See generally <www.cairnsgroup.org> at 2 August 2005.

Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization, opened for signature 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 January 1995), annex 1A (Agreement on Agriculture) 1867 UNTS 190.

Brett Parris, World Vision Australia Aid Budget Analysis (2005) (internal document).

Ibid.

Singer Peter , cited in Brown Chris , Sovereignty Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (2002) 162.

Mandela Nelson , ‘Make Poverty History’ (Speech delivered at the ‘Make Poverty History’ Campaign Launch, Trafalgar Square (London), 3 February 2005).