| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
Economic, social, and cultural rights are protected by an international covenant, recently amended by the optional protocol which allows individuals to bring rights violations before a UN committee. This book addresses how successfully these rights are implemented and safeguarded worldwide, assessing the key challenges to their protection. |
| Contents |
I. Introduction 1. Gilles Giacca, Christophe Golay, and Eibe Riedel: Addressing the Issues and Challenges Confronting ESC Rights II. Challenges in the Protection of ESC Rights in Times of Crisis 2. Gilles Giacca: The Protection of Socio-Economic Rights in Armed Conflict: Challenges and Prospects 3. Mary Dowell-Jones: The Bond Markets and Socio-Economic Rights: Understanding the Challenge of Austerity 4. Ignazio Saiz and Sally-Anne Way: The Global Economic Crisis and its Implications for Economic and Social Rights 5. Olivier De Schutter: Companies and ESC Rights: The Need for a New Deal? III. Interrelationship of ESC Rights with other Legal Regimes 6. Hans Morten Haugen: Trade and Investment Agreements: What Role for ESC Rights in International Economic Law? 7. Holger P. Hestermeyer: ESC Rights in the World Trade Organization: Legal Aspects and Reality 8. Jorge E. Viñuales and Stéphanie Chuffard: From the Other Shore: ESC Rights from an International Environmental Law Perspective 9. Michelle Foster: International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights 10. Larissa van den Herik: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- International Criminal Law's Blind Spot? IV. Challenges of Non-discrimination and equality in ESC rights 11. Ioana Cismas: Revisiting the Intersection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights 12. Sandra Ratjen: Non-Discrimination, Substantive Equality, and the realization of ESC Rights for All 13. Christine Chinkin: ESC Rights and Gender V. New Concepts and Tools to Measure the Progressive Realization of ESC Rights 14. Eibe Riedel: Indicators and Benchmarks -- A Golden Metwand for ESC Rights Monitoring? 15. Aoife Nolan: Budget Analysis and Economic and Social Rights 16. Simon Walker: Human Rights Impact Assessments: Emerging Practice and Challenges 17. Tahmina Karimova: Obligation of International Assistance and Cooperation in Development Cooperation: A Legal Map with Areas of Shade and Light 18. Sigrun Skogly: 'Available Resources' and Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations: the Qualitative Challenge to International Assistance and Cooperation VI. New Trends in Monitoring ESC Rights at the International and National Level 19. Nico Schrijver: The International Court of Justice and ESC Rights 20. Malcolm Langford: New Trends in National Jurisprudence on ESC Rights 21. Duncan Wilson and Allison Corkery: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Monitoring ESC Rights 22. Frank Haldemann and Rachelle Kouassi: ESC Rights and Transitional Justice. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
International law -- Interpretation and construction.
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Human rights -- International cooperation.
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International economic relations.
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LAW -- International. |
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Human rights -- International cooperation |
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International economic relations |
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International law -- Interpretation and construction |
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Economic, social and cultural rights. |
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Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. |
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Implementation. |
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Human rights. |
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Public international law. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Added Author |
Riedel, Eibe H., editor.
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Giacca, Gilles, editor.
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Golay, Christophe, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Economic 0199685975 (OCoLC)874963214 |
| ISBN |
9780191509575 (electronic bk.) |
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0191509574 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191766091 |
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0191766097 |
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0199685975 |
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9780199685974 |
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