Development projects, discrimination in
Discrimination against individuals or groups promoted or reinforced

Type of entry: Potential Violation

International agencies should scrupulously avoid involvement in projects which ... promote or reinforce discrimination against individuals or groups contrary to the provisions of the Covenant CESCR/GC 2(6)

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  • Discrimination
  • International agencies

See ESC right:

Development, economic social and cultural

Relevant ICESCR Articles:

01(1): All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

02(2): The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.


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