The International Covenant On Economics Social And Cultural

Author : Ben Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2054 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.

Author : Andreas J. Wiesand,Kalliopi Chainoglou,Anna Sledzinska-Simon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110432251

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Culture and Human Rights: The Wroclaw Commentaries by Andreas J. Wiesand,Kalliopi Chainoglou,Anna Sledzinska-Simon Pdf

The WROCLAW COMMENTARIES address legal questions as well as political consequences related to freedom of, and access to, the arts and (old/new) media; questions of religious and language rights; the protection of minorities and other vulnerable groups; safeguarding cultural diversity and heritage; and further pertinent issues. Specialists from all over Europe and the world summarise and comment on core messages of legal instruments, the essence of case-law as well as prevailing and important dissenting opinions in the literature, with the aim of providing a user-friendly tool for the daily needs of decision or law-makers at different juridical, administrative and political levels as well as others working in the field of culture and human rights.

Author : Matthew C. R. Craven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198258747

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The International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural by Matthew C. R. Craven Pdf

Author : Jackie Dugard,Bruce Porter,Daniela Ikawa,Lilian Chenwi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Eibe Riedel,Gilles Giacca,Christophe Golay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Asbjørn Eide,Catarina Krause,Allan Rosas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Eibe Riedel,Gilles Giacca,Christophe Golay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Sage Russell
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9789050952057

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Core Obligations by Sage Russell Pdf

2. History and Norms

Author : Olivier de Schutter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0857930753

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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights by Olivier de Schutter Pdf

This title offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion includes: the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the ability of courts to protect them; the effectiveness of non-judicial protective mechanisms at both the universal and the domestic level; ways of measuring whether states do enough to 'progressively realize' these rights; the impact of trade and investment liberalization, and of economic globalization generally, on the fulfilment of such rights; and the role of economic, social and cultural rights in development.

Author : Marco Odello,Francesco Seatzu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1138809705

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

There has been a growing interest in economic, social, and cultural human rights in recent years, particularly following the adoption of the 2009 Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). This book offers an in depth analysis of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Socia

Author : Elisabeth Reichert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231520706

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Social Work and Human Rights by Elisabeth Reichert Pdf

Social Work and Human Rights has become a standard text highlighting the role of social work in protecting the rights of vulnerable populations. Through rigorous analysis, classroom exercises, and a frank discussion of the implications for practice both within and outside of the United States, the volume effectively acquaints readers with the political, economic, and social dimensions of rights issues and the documents that guarantee them. New material covers international events, such as the United Nations' Millennium Declaration (2000) and its effort to reduce the poverty and suffering of billions worldwide. The volume now emphasizes cultural rights and includes a probing lesson in cultural relativism. It turns a critical eye toward the failure in the United States to address social welfare issues and its reluctance to rectify policies favoring one group over another. Praise for the first edition: "A human rights compass—a preliminary guide for the translation of human rights for social workers.... It is to be welcomed."—European Journal of Social Work "Foundation documents provide an essential tool for understanding the issues and applying the understanding to concrete social policy advocacy and action."—Canadian Association of Social Workers Bulletin "This is a text which is overdue for social work students and faculty."—Rosemary Link, coauthor of Human Behavior in a Just World: Reaching for Common Ground "Reichert makes human rights concepts come alive. Practice case examples and human rights analysis of the National Association of Social Worker's Code of Ethics are particularly valuable in orienting the reader to the domestic practice applications of the global human rights movement."—Lynne M. Healy, author of International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World

Author : María Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9789050952606

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The Nature of the Obligations Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by María Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Pdf

1.2 A new momenttim

Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509900831

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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 : Mary Dowell-Jones,University of Nottingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:59370535

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Contextualising the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Mary Dowell-Jones,University of Nottingham Pdf

Author : Robert Howse,Ruti G. Teitel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3898926621

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Beyond the Divide by Robert Howse,Ruti G. Teitel Pdf

The legal, institutional and policy cultures of international human rights law and of international trade, financial and investment law have developed largely in isolation from one another. At the same time, as a matter of international law, both the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Economic Rights (ICESCR) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are, in the first instance, treaty regimes. Treaty norms in the ICESCR have an equal legal status to those in the WTO. A large majority of states are signatories to both the core WTO treaties (the so-called Covered Agreements) and the ICESCR. Reconstructing globalization on the basis of a human rights consciousness, and in particular with a view to fully realizing the vision of the ICESCR is a daunting task, which would need to engage many policy disciplines and many institutions. A short to medium term strategy is needed to identify some fairly precise and specific interconnections between the legal concepts and doctrines in the treaty texts of both regimes. As international lawyers whose collective expertise extends across both regimes, the authors conceive the challenge as a legal question of the interaction of treaty norms. The authors focus on those aspects of economic, social and cultural rights that are most directly linked to human security, a fundamental value also acknowledged in various ways in the WTO Agreements and their interpretation. Accordingly, they examine aspects of the right to work, the right to health and the right to food and the impact of WTO rules and their interpretation..