Screen LibraryResearch handbook on international law and social rights /
"This comprehensive Research Handbook offers 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 ce...
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| Published: |
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Research handbooks in international law
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| Summary: |
"This comprehensive Research Handbook offers 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." |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 562 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781788972123 (cased) : 1788972120 (cased) 9781788972130 (eBook) 1788972139 (eBook) |
| Index Number: | K1700 |
| CLC: | D990-62 |
| Call Number: | D990-62/R432-1 |
| Contents: |
General aspects of international law and social rights -- Social rights in international law : categorization versus indivisibility / The nature of social rights as obligations of international law : resource availability, progressive realization and the obligations to respect, protect, fulfil / Justiciability and social rights / Pursuing global socio-economic, colonial and environmental justice through economic redistribution : the potential significance of human rights treaty obligations / |