International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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US Ratification of the ICESCR? (Robert Traer, 1999)

Why the United States has yet to embrace the International Bill of Rights. This analysis will: review the history of support by the U.S. government for international human rights law, evaluate procedural barriers to effective U.S. ratification of human rights treaties, and consider what ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights might mean for U.S. policy on education, housing, food, health, and women's rights.

Rights in the Third World (Robert Traer, 1991)

An analysis of the political debate over human rights between members of the First, Second and Third Worlds and the shift in emphasis in the human rights efforts of the United Nations. Human rights advocates in the Third World are bringing together diverse notions of human rights into a new synthesis that strengthens economic, social and cultural rights.