Giving Meaning To Economic Social And Cultural Rights

Author : Isfahan Merali,Valerie Oosterveld
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812205695

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Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights by Isfahan Merali,Valerie Oosterveld Pdf

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text. However, for most of the fifty years since the Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the focus of the international community has been on civil and political rights. This focus has slowly shifted over the past two decades. Recent international human rights treaties—such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women—grant equal importance to protecting and advancing nonpolitical rights. In this collection of essays, Isfahan Merali, Valerie Oosterveld, and a team of human rights scholars and activists call for the reintegration of economic, social, and cultural rights into the human rights agenda. The essays are divided into three sections. First the contributors examine traditional conceptualizations of human rights that made their categorization possible and suggest a more holistic rights framework that would dissolve such boundaries. In the second section they discuss how an integrated approach actually produces a more meaningful analysis of individual economic, social, and cultural rights. Finally, the contributors consider how these rights can be monitored and enforced, identifying ways international human rights agencies, NGOs, and states can promote them in the twenty-first century.

Author : Asbjørn Eide,Catarina Krause,Allan Rosas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047433866

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Asbjørn Eide,Catarina Krause,Allan Rosas Pdf

The first edition of this text was a textbook on internationally recognized economic, social and cultural rights. While focusing on this category of rights, it also analyzed their relationships to other human rights, civil and political in particular. This revised edition updates the information.

Author : Jackie Dugard,Bruce Porter,Daniela Ikawa,Lilian Chenwi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788974172

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Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights by Jackie Dugard,Bruce Porter,Daniela Ikawa,Lilian Chenwi Pdf

This exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of standards and jurisprudence, it argues for an expansive and inclusive approach to ESCR as human rights.

Author : Yash P. Ghai,Interights (Organization)
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 186994027X

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Economic, Social & Cultural Rights in Practice by Yash P. Ghai,Interights (Organization) Pdf

South Africa is increasingly an attractive place for international investment. Investing in South Africa provides readers with an overview of the investment environment in South Africa, and information on investment opportunities, developments, and foreign direct investment incentives offered by the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI). It also outlines the support that the DTI offers new investors in South Africa. Through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), priority areas have been identified for Africa--one of which is the development of the private sector as a means to stimulate growth. An important element for investors in South Africa is that it is a gateway to the rest of Africa. Already many South African companies have learned many lessons in tackling the challenges of these markets. This provides a unique opportunity for international firms to draw on their lessons and experience.

Author : Asbjørn Eide,Catarina Krause
Publisher : Brill - Nijhoff
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041115951

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Asbjørn Eide,Catarina Krause Pdf

I. CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES

Author : Marco Odello,Francesco Seatzu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000155181

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The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Marco Odello,Francesco Seatzu Pdf

The book concerns the study and analysis of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from an international legal perspective, taking into consideration the adoption of the 2008 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The volume provides a detailed account of the structure and functioning of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the light of its jurisprudence, through a study of the Committee’s procedures and practices (periodic reports and general comments), including taking into account the Optional Protocol for individual complaint procedure. The book considers the possible implications of the work of this Committee on other UN Committees, such as the Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, as well as considering the repercussions of its work on the international protection of fundamental rights, such as the right to education, to health and adequate food. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will be of particular interest to academics and students of International and Human Rights law.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Unesco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UOM:39015005177855

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Cultural Rights as Human Rights by Unesco Pdf

UNESCO pub. Conference report on the cultural factors of human rights - includes papers and records of discussions on the concept of cultural rights in developed countries and developing countries, and covers trends, the impact of tradition, education, mass media, economic development, etc. On cultural change, etc. Conference held in Paris 1968 jul 8 to 13.

Author : Eibe Riedel,Gilles Giacca,Christophe Golay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199685974

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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights by Eibe Riedel,Gilles Giacca,Christophe Golay Pdf

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.

Author : Ralph Beddard,Dilys M. Hill
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 033352196X

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Ralph Beddard,Dilys M. Hill Pdf

This book explores two main themes. First, the claim that these welfare, education, health and equality can be accorded the status of rights. Second, and relatedly, the issue of whether they are justiciable, that is, can they be the subject of adjudication and enforcement through traditional legal mechanisms? This book provides a timely and wide-ranging exploration of these topical and controversial issues.

Author : Eibe Riedel,Gilles Giacca,Christophe Golay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191509582

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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law by Eibe Riedel,Gilles Giacca,Christophe Golay Pdf

Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in December 2008. The Protocol gives individuals and groups the ability to bring complaints about rights violations before the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Against this background, this book focuses on the question of how fundamental socio-economic human rights enshrined in international law are defined, interpreted, understood, and implemented. It assesses how effective efforts to realize ESC rights have been and investigates the contemporary challenges obstructing their protection. It sets out the impact of the global financial crisis and austerity measures, the human rights responsibilities of corporations, and trends in the justiciability of those rights at the national and international level. The interrelationship between ESC rights and other legal regimes such as trade and investment law, environmental law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law is also thoroughly examined. After an introduction by the editors the book contains seventeen chapters looking at the main questions which shape the progressive realization of ESC rights and their monitoring mechanisms. The authors of the chapters, both scholars and practitioners, adopt interdisciplinary approaches that move beyond traditional analyses of ESC rights. In doing so, they clarify and illuminate multiple aspects of the law by bringing together the different aspects of ESC rights, restating the challenges they face, and assessing the progress that has been made in expanding their adoption.

Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509902033

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law by Manisuli Ssenyonjo Pdf

Since the first edition (published in 2009), there have been several important treaty developments, including the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) on individual communications, and significant developments in the case law on economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights. The second edition addresses these developments and explores ESC rights from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. It has been fully updated to include new material and up-to-date coverage of the case law of human rights bodies and national courts on ESC rights. In addition to the rights to health, education and work covered in the first edition, the second edition analyses new developments, such as the rights to adequate food, water and sanitation, adequate housing, social security and cultural rights. It also considers several contemporary issues including the extraterritorial human rights obligations of states in the area of economic, social and cultural rights; non-state actors; relationship of the ICESCR to other areas of international law; the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR; regional protection of ESC rights; more examples of the domestic protection of ESC rights; the protection of ESC rights of vulnerable groups; contemporary challenges to ESC rights, including poverty, corruption, armed conflicts and terrorism. It concludes by exploring the possible establishment of a World Court of Human Rights.

Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351941860

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Manisuli Ssenyonjo Pdf

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a collection of seminal papers examining legal, conceptual and practical questions regarding the international legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights. The volume discusses what human rights obligations economic, social and cultural rights entail for states and non-state actors; the nature and scope of substantive economic, social and cultural rights such as education, health, work, water, enjoyment of the benefits of scientific progress, and cultural rights; as well as the justiciability of these rights at an international level and at the national level. The paramount importance of such questions is illustrated, among other things, by the catastrophic situation of economic, social and cultural rights as human rights in developing and developed states. The volume is divided into three main parts which focus on human rights obligations for states and non-state actors arising from treaties protecting economic, social and cultural rights; analysis of selected substantive rights; and finally the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights in various contexts such as within the United Nations, Europe, Inter-American, and African systems, as well as within the domestic system.

Author : Margot E. Salomon
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904584254

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Guide for Minorities and Indigenous Peoples by Margot E. Salomon Pdf

In recent years, increased attention has been given to economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights internationally and, to a certain degree, domestically. However not enough has been done to consider fully and systematically the economic, social and cultural rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. This guide aims to bridge this gap. It provides an overview of ESC rights and how these can be applied to minorities and indigenous peoples. Aimed at minority and indigenous activists and those working with them, each chapter has been written by an expert on a particular right, who provides practical information and advice about the best ways to advocate for securing ESC rights. The chapters cover the rights to food and water, housing, health, education, labour and culture and describe the legal standards, enforcement mechanisms, and guidelines for successful civil society advocacy.

Author : Ben Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2054 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191074974

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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Ben Saul Pdf

This book is the first collection of the drafting records of the one of the world's two foremost human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966. It makes an important contribution to understanding the origins and meaning of economic and social rights, which were drafted over almost two decades years between 1947 and 1966. There is increasing global interest in the stronger protection of economic, social, and cultural rights, which are vital to the survival, dignity, and prosperity of everyone. Since 2013, individuals have been able to complain to the United Nations about violations of their rights, and action can also often be taken through regional and national human rights procedures. In this context, many of the current debates surrounding economic and social rights can be best understood in the light of their drafting history. This book judiciously selects, and chronologically presents, the most important drafting documents or extracts thereof between 1947 and 1966. The book contains an extensive annotated table of documents, allowing researchers to track the progress of the key rights and issues in the drafting. It also includes an original analytical introductory essay, which summarises and analyses the main procedural and substantive developments during the drafting. The essay charts the many influences on the recognition of economic and social rights at a key moment in history: the aftermath of the Second World War, which demonstrated the need to eliminate the economic and social causes of threats to global peace and security. This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and students of international human rights law.