Our submission to the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights on how the cost of living crisis has impacted the rights covered by the European Social Charter, such as food and housing.
Part 2 of the Easy Read version of the United Kingdom Independent Mechanism (UKIM) joint submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; to support a follow-up review of its 2016 inquiry into the UK. It provides a summary of developments related to the rights of disabled people in the UK from 2016 to the time of submission, in relation to the inquiry topics.
International Human Rights Laws
The right to food in international law is part of the right to an adequate standard of living, first laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), article 25, and in treaties such as the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 27. The key international provision on the right to food is article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
Article 11(1) of ICESCR stipulates
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