Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Eibe Riedel, Gilles Giacca, and Christophe Golay
Abstract
Recent years have seen an expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights within international law. This has led to the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in December 2008, giving individuals and groups the ability to bring complaints about violations of these rights before the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. In this context, this book assesses how effective efforts have been to realize international ESC rights, investigating the contemporary challenges obstructing their ... More
Recent years have seen an expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights within international law. This has led to the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in December 2008, giving individuals and groups the ability to bring complaints about violations of these rights before the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. In this context, this book assesses how effective efforts have been to realize international ESC rights, investigating the contemporary challenges obstructing their protection. It investigates the impact of the global financial crisis, the need for ESC rights to be implemented in a non-discriminatory manner, and the interrelationship between ESC rights and other international legal regimes. It provides a careful analysis of the new tools and indicators available to measure the progressive realisation of ESC rights. This book clarifies and illuminates the multiple aspects of the law governing ESC rights, by bringing together all the different aspects of ESC rights, re-stating the challenges they face, and assessing the progress that has been made in expanding their adoption. The book addresses the main issues related to the progressive realization of ESC rights and their monitoring mechanisms. The chapters take an interdisciplinary approach to move beyond the traditional analysis of ESC rights, contextualizing their discussions against wider contemporary international law challenges. In reflecting this diversity of perspectives, the book sheds light on the new methodologies for implementation and the many obstacles faced by the realization of ESC rights.
Keywords:
international law,
Optional Protocol,
ESC rights,
international legal regimes,
realization of ESC rights
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199685974 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685974.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Eibe Riedel, editor
Professor of German and Comparative Public Law, and European and International Law, University of Mannheim
Gilles Giacca, editor
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Christophe Golay, editor
Research Fellow and Joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
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