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Research handbook on international law and social rights / edited by Christina Binder, Jane A. Hofbauer (Department for Public Law and International Law, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany), Flávia Piovesan (Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Amaya Úbeda de Torres (Senior Lawyer, Council of Europe).
Binder, Christina, editor.; Hofbauer, Jane editor.; Piovesan, Flávia editor.; Úbeda de Torres, Amaya editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2020
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Research handbook on international law and social rights / edited by Christina Binder, Jane A. Hofbauer (Department for Public Law and International Law, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany), Flávia Piovesan (Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil) and Amaya Úbeda de Torres (Senior Lawyer, Council of Europe).
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"For several decades, social rights lacked proper recognition in international law, being qualified as aspirational goals rather than rights, and therefore not enjoying the same level of protection or status as other human rights. This comprehensive Research Handbook provides a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to becoming the category of rights responding most accurately to the 21st century's policy objectives of poverty eradication and equitable resource allocation, this Research Handbook assesses the mechanisms used to enhance the implementation and enforcement of social rights. Offering in-depth discussion of current debates in the field of social rights and international law, expert contributors analyse the ability of these rights to act as a tool to fight inequality, as well as to protect and ensure diversity. In so doing, they examine how social rights now play a central role in the shift from a state-centred to a value-based global order. This Research Handbook will be a useful resource for students and academics working on social rights in international human rights law and other fields of public international law. It will also be of value to lawyers, NGOs and state officials concerned with the enforcement and implementation of social rights"-- Provided by publisher.
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Research handbooks in international law.
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Binder, Christina, editor.
Hofbauer, Jane editor.
Piovesan, Flávia editor.
Úbeda de Torres, Amaya editor.
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Index: Introduction: International law and social rights / Christina Binder, Jane A Hofbauer, Flávia Piovesan, Amaya Úbeda de Torres
Part 1. General aspects of international law and social rights
1. Social rights in international law: Categorizations versus indivisibility / Manfred Nowak
2. The nature of social rights as obligations of international law - resource availability, progressive realization and the obligations to respect, protect, fulfil / Veronika Bílková
3. Justiciability and social rights / Amaya Úbeda de Torres
4. Pursuing global socio-economic, colonial and environmental justice through economic redistribution: The potential significance of human rights treaty obligations / Ralph Wilde
Part 2. The protection of social rights in international human rights law
a. Universal protection
5. Social rights protection in the icescr and its optional protocol - the role of the committee on economic, social and cultural rights / Zdzisław (Dzidek) Kędzia
6. Social rights protection through core international human rights treaties beyond the icescr / Thomas Kleinlein
b. Regional protection
7. The European social charter / Karin Lukas
8. Social rights in the jurisprudence of the European court of human rights / Eugenia López-Jacoiste
9. The protection of social rights by the inter-american commission on human rights rights / Flávia Piovesan, Mariela Morales Antoniazzi, Julia Cortez da Cunha Cruz
10. Social rights in the jurisprudence of the inter-american court of human rights / Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor
11. Social rights in the African system for the protection and promotion of human and peoples' rights / Frans Viljoen
c. Social rights as a tool to fight inequality and to protect and ensure diversity
12. The social rights of African descendants, with focus on the americas / Manuel Góngora-Mera
13. Social rights as persons with disabilities' rights / Francesco Seatzu
14. Stateless persons and social rights / Marija Dobrić, Philipp Janig
15. Social rights of minorities / Aris Constantinides
Part 3. The implementation and enforcement of social rights
16. Monitoring the implementation of social rights through indicators with special focus on the inter-american level / Laura C Pautassi
17. The role of domestic actors in the implementation and enforcement of social rights / Andreas Th Müller
18. The role of civil society organizations in the protection of social rights / Daniela Ikawa
19. The proceduralization of social rights: Access to information, justice and remedies / Yota Negishi
Part 4. Crisis and social rights : Challenges to social rights
20. Austerity measures and women's social and economic rights: We need to look deeper / Abby Kendrick, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
21. Corporations and social rights / Judith Schönsteiner
22. The implications of corruption on social rights / Kolawole Olaniyan
23. Social rights adjudication and the future of the welfare state / Elise Dermine
24. Social rights in armed conflict situations / Amrei Müller
Part 5. Social rights in perspective: Interlinkages with other international regimes
25. International investment law and social rights: Interactions and encounters / Eric De Brabandere
26. Financial institutions and social rights: From foes to friends? / Matthias Goldmann
27. Social rights and the sustainable development goals / Inga T Winkler, Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez
28. The environment and social rights / Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, Amanda ZT Mkhonza
29. Climate change and social rights: Perspectives on legal obligations / Siobhán McInerney-Lankford
30. International criminal law and social rights / Evelyne Schmid
Index.

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