Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text. However, for most of the fifty years since the Declaration was adopted by the General...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2011
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| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Conceptualizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Dissolving Categories; 1. Toward the Institutional Integration of the Core Human Rights Treaties; 2. From Division to Integration: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights as Basic Human Rights; 3. Defending Women's Economic and Social Rights: Some Thoughts on Indivisibility and a New Standard of Equality; Part II. Current Themes: Applying Cross-Cutting Analysis; 4. Human Rights Mean Business: Broadening the Canadian Approach to Business and Human Rights.
- 5. Feminism After the State: The Rise of the Market and the Future of Women's Rights6. Advancing Safe Motherhood Through Human Rights; 7. Canada's New Child Support Guidelines: Do They Fulfill Canada's International Law Obligations to Children?; Part III. Giving Meaning: Protection and Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; 8. Implementing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions; 9. Bringing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Home: Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel.
- 10. The Maya Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Indigenous Land and Resource Rights and the Conflict over Logging and Oil in Southern BelizeNotes; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.
