Poverty and fundamental rights
Subtitle: the justification and enforcement of socio-economic rights
By: David Bilchitz.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780199204915
Subjects: Civil rights; Civil rights -- Political aspects; Equality; Poverty
Description: This book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and questions why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than violations of civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom of speech or to vote?
Table of contents: title: Towards a thin theory of the good; title: The justification of fundamental rights; title: Determining our unconditional obligations; title: Justifying the judicial review of fundamental rights; title: Judicial review in practice : the reasonableness approach and its shortcomings; title: Political philosophy in action : developing the minimum core approach to socio-economic rights; title: Conclusion : implications for policy in South Africa and beyond