Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

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The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is a United Nations treaty body entrusted with overseeing the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). It is composed of 18 experts.^[1]

It meets (usually twice per year) to consider measures which States parties to the ICESCR have taken, progress they made and obstacles they have encountered in achieving the observance of the rights recognized in the ICESCR.

The Committee's 18 members come from different countries. They serve in their personal capacity, meaning they are not UN staff, are not paid a salary to sit on the Committee, and do not represent their country of citizenship. Like the other human rights treaty monitoring bodies, the CESCR is tasked with the interpretation and monitoring of a specific treaty (the ICESCR in this case). The CESCR carries out its mandate by reviewing periodically the implementation of the treaty in each country that has ratified it, developing ‘general comments’ that interpret specific provisions of the treaty, and adjudicating individual complaints.

CESCR Members are elected for a term of four years by the ECOSOC, in accordance with ECOSOC Resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 1985.

Members serve in their personal capacity and may be re-elected if nominated.

Name	State	Term Expires
Aslan Abashidze (Vice-chair and Rapporteur)	Russian Federation	31.12.2022
Mohamed Ezzeldin Abdel-Moneim (chair)	Egypt	31.12.2024
Nadir Adilov	Azerbaijan	31.12.2024
Mohammed Amarti	Morocco	31.12.2024
Asraf Ally Caunhye	Mauritius	31.12.2022
Laura-Maria Craciunean-Tatu	Romania	31.12.2024
Peters Sunday Omologbe Emuze	Nigeria	31.12.2022
Ludovic Hennebel	Belgium	31.12.2022
Karla Vanessa Lemus De Vásquez	El Salvador	31.12.2022
Mikel Mancisidor	Spain	31.12.2024
Seree Nonthasoot	Thailand	31.12.2024
Lydia Carmelita Ravenberg	Suriname	31.12.2024
Preeti Saran	India	31.12.2022
Yongxiang Shen	China	31.12.2024
Heisoo Shin (Vice-chair)	South Korea	31.12.2022
Rodrigo Uprimny (Vice-chair)	Colombia	31.12.2022
Michael Windfuhr (Vice-chair)	Germany	31.12.2024
Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão	Brazil	31.12.2022

• Dommen & Sepulveda (2017). The Obligation to Mobilise Resources: Bridging Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals,

and Economic and Fiscal Policies, at: https://www.ibanet.org/Human_Rights_Institute/Publications.

• OHCHR | Membership: [1]