經濟社會文化權利之可司法性：經濟社會文化權利委員會個人申訴案件之檢視

Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights—Review of Individual Communications of ICESCR Committee

《經濟社會文化權利國際公約》所面臨之挑戰，包括是否需要訂定經社文公約、不同的權利規範模式、特殊的經濟社會文化權利委員會、遲來的個人申訴制度。其中有兩個議題應然維持，包括特別的經濟社會文化權利委員會及不同之經濟社會文化權利規範，因而應檢視的是特別的經濟社會文化權利委員會是否透過審視個人申訴案件而突破經濟社會文化權利之規範模式。
然而經《經濟社會文化權利國際公約議定書》個人申訴制度之實踐概況有幾個特質，包括時間不夠長、案件不夠多、被告國家少、實質意見少、權利範圍窄。經濟社會文化權利委員會具體實踐暫時措施，在有可能造成不可彌補的損害時，即可要求當事國暫停行為。不過當事國卻均未為之，對於經濟社會文化權利委員會建立實踐暫時措施制度之要求，亦未積極實踐。
經濟社會文化權利委員會做成實質決定之案件中，所牽涉之實質權利保障只涵蓋社會安全權、健康權、家庭權、居住權等四項權利，範圍尚未普及。然而由監督內容可以看出，其實經濟社會文化權利委員會已經進行監督，並設定相當高之權利標準，也針對決定內容提出相對應之個案建議及一般建議，期待當事國能救濟個案，並透過制度改良確保違反公約之作為不會再發生。但是很可惜地當事國並未全面實踐，然而經濟社會文化權利委員會只能持續關注，這是國際人權監督制度至今仍需面對之問題。

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights confronted several challenges including whether to be adopted as a treaty, different rights norms, unique Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and belated individual communication system. Two of them are still remain: different rights norms and unique Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Therefore, what should be reviewed is whether a unique Committee can offer breakthroughs of different rights norms by examining individual communications.
However, results of examination of individual communications show some characters including not a long time, not many cases, not many defendant states, not much substantial views, not broad ambit. The Committee applied interim measure when it was necessary, but states did not comply with. Individual communications concerned four rights, i.e., social security, health, family and housing, which are only small portion of the Covenant. The Committee set high standards, and proposed individual and general recommendations to offer remedies and expect better protections. It is however regretful that states did not always implement recommendations.