reports the Committee is of the view that a minimum core obligation to ensure the satisfaction of, at the very least, minimum essential levels of
each of the rights is incumbent upon every State party. Thus, for example, a State
party in which any significant number of individuals is deprived of essential foodstuffs, of essential primary health care, of basic shelter and housing, or of the most
basic forms of education is, prima facie, failing to discharge its obligations under the
Covenant. If the Covenant were to be read in such a way as not to establish such a
minimum core obligation, it would be largely deprived of its raison d'être.