Pursuing global socio-economic, colonial and environmental justice through economic redistribution: the potential significance of human rights treaty obligations
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2020

As far as the global realization of social rights are concerned, three central interrelated challenges are commonly raised: (1) ‘economic inequality’: the global distribution of wealth and resources should be reconceived in order to promote the social rights of people in the Global South; (2): ‘colonial justice’: there has to be a reckoning for the injustice of colonialism; (3),‘environmental justice’: ‘industrialized’ countries, whose economic privileges are rooted in environmental harm and exp