The Study of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Indicators and Their Application in International Law

摘要

Economic, social and cultural rights indicators have been gradually incorporated into the human rights framework. In practice, United Nations agencies, human rights treaty bodies and countries often use indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights. Because of the inherent shortcomings, human rights indicators do not accurately reflect the realization of economic, social and cultural rights. It would promote the role of human rights indicators in protection of economic, social and cultural rights, by combining statistical averages in human rights with information for specific groups, striking a balance between universal indicators and country-specific indicators, strengthening international cooperation efforts to collect comprehensive and reliable human rights data.