Global Regulation

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Introduction

The UN is actively pursuing global regulatory regimes in the areas of economic and social rights. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Social and Human Sciences Sector of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (“UNESCO”) play an instrumental role in developing and facilitating networks for the promotion and protection of certain economic and social human rights contained in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

The economic, social and cultural rights contained in the ICESCR include, but are not limited to, the right to work; the right to the enjoyment of just and favorable conditions of work; the right to social security; the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing; the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; the right to education; and the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications.

The UN relies on a Matrix of Human Rights Governance Networks to create and manage its global regulatory regimes. The ten human rights governance networks comprising the Matrix work in successive stages. The advocacy networks generate the idea for an emerging economic or social right; the research networks conduct the research necessary to support the right; the policy networks design the policy that embodies the right; the standards-setting networks publicly adopt or declare the right as a norm or standard; the interpretive networks determine the nature and scope of the right; the explanatory networks explain the right to the affected parties and their supporters in civil society; the implementation networks adopt the legislation that promotes or protects the right; the assessment networks encourage government and business respect for the right; the enforcement networks penalize those who violate the right; and the funding networks help sustain one or more of the human rights governance networks comprising the Matrix.

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