Economic, social and cultural rights
By: edited by Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Series: The international library of essays on rights; International library of essays on rights
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9781409421511
Subjects: Human rights; Judicial power; Social legislation; International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; Due process of law; Interpretation and construction
Description: "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. This 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.