What redress mechanisms are available to vulnerable groups in the case that their ESCR are violated?
DS: For many in the world the main potential redress mechanisms are through social organisation, voting decisions and even consumption. Part of a human rights based approach for the United Nations consists of giving people the capacity to avail themselves of these sorts of levers of influence through building their knowledge, supporting the efforts of civil society, and promoting electoral processes within which voters are as well-informed as possible of the choices available to them. At a different level, the reporting mechanisms for human rights instruments, both global and regional, that address economic and social rights can and should be used to examine and critique policy responses. Thus the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights should consider States Parties’ responses with regard to the extent to which they promote the rights of all, rather than advantage the better off. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination should review policy responses to see
