Social Rights

The European Committee of Social Right (ECSR) will present its conclusions for 2019 on Tuesday 24 March 2020. Due to restrictions related to the Covid-19 outbreak, the Committee will be unable to present the conclusions at a press conference. They will be transmitted to media through the Council of Europe Directorate of Communications and published on the European Social Charter’s website.

In 2019, in the framework of the reporting procedure, the Committee examined 37 national reports on the articles of the Charter relating to children, families and migrants, as follows :

• the right of children and young persons to protection (Article 7);
• the right of employed women to protection of maternity (Article 8);
• the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection (Article 16);
• the right of children and young persons to social, legal and economic protection (Article 17);
• the right of migrant workers and their families to protection and assistance (Article 19);
• the right of workers with family responsibilities to equal opportunity and treatment (Article 27);
• the right to housing (Article 31).

Furthermore, the Committee will already make public its Findings 2019 in respect of 7 countries on Friday 20 March: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden. Findings 2019 set out the Committee’s assessments of follow-up given by these countries to decisions in collective complaints.

For more information on the presentation of the conclusions, please contact the Council of Europe Directorate of Communications: Giuseppe.ZAFFUTO@coe.int or pressunit@coe.int.