National human rights institutions and economic, social and cultural rights
By: edited by Eva Brems, Gauthier De Beco, Wouter Vandenhole
Publisher: Intersentia; Intersentia Uitgevers N.V.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781780681450
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: National human rights institutions; Human rights advocacy; Basic needs; Social rights; Culture and law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the volume / -- Eva Brems, Gauthier De Beco and Wouter Vandenhole; title: The role of national human rights institutions in the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights : historical, theoretical and critical perspectives  -- Gauthier de Beco; title: National human rights institutions as independent actors in relation to economic, social and cultural rights  -- Lone Lindholt; title: The Bolivian human rights ombudsman and economic, social and cultural rights  -- Thomas Pegram; title: The role of NHRC in protecting and promoting the economic and social rights of vulnerable groups in India  -- Justice B.C. Patel; title: The monitoring role of the Ghana Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in the protection of economic, social and cultural rights  -- Kofi Quashigah; title: National human rights institutions and economic, social and cultural rights : an examination of the mandate and practice of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission  -- Mohammed Abdo; title: Equal treatment, an effective mechanism to protect human rights in the Netherlands?  -- Laurien J.L. Koster; title: Anti-discrimination legislation and the role of an equality body in the promotion of economic and social rights  -- Jozef De Witte; title: The role of national inquiries in the protection of social and economic rights -- Brian Burdekin.