Tashkent State University of Law hosted a national scientific and practical conference entitled “Ensuring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Global Challenges and National Solutions,” dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The conference was organized at the initiative of TSUL’s Department of International Law and Human Rights. The event brought together representatives of government bodies, civil society institutions, academic staff, and the research community.
The discussions focused on ensuring the population’s right to social security; providing state support to socially vulnerable groups; incorporating international standards into national legislation; protecting human honor and dignity; strengthening international legal safeguards against forced labour; fulfilling state obligations in the field of economic, social and cultural rights; implementing international treaty provisions into the national legal system; and improving legal mechanisms that enable citizens to participate in cultural life, access cultural heritage, and protect it.
Participants emphasized the importance of cooperation among government bodies, national institutions, and the research community in safeguarding human honor and dignity, strengthening the principles of a social state, and ensuring the practical implementation of legal guarantees.