Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Action

Bibliographic Data

ID20008701
AuthorsRobin Churchill (0000-0001-8138-9254), Urfan Khaliq
EditorsMashood Baderin (Professor of Law, SOAS, University of London), Robert Mccorquodale (0000-0002-0842-986X, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham)
Year2007
Pages350
Publication date2007-04-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEconomic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Action (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217908.001.0001
OpenAlexW1850321415
Open LibraryOL10145824M
ISBN9780199217908
LanguageEN
Citations received12

On 16 December 1966 the United Nations adopted the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This was the first global treaty that established legal obligations on states to protect a range of important economic, social, and cultural rights. Forty years later the vast majority of States have ratified this treaty. Despite this history, there remains considerable debate, both within the literature and within the international community generally, about the concept and application of economic, social, and cultural rights. This collection gives a coherent analysis of many of the key issues, both in concept and in application, relevant to economic, social, and cultural rights. The authors of the chapters, many of whom are leading scholars in their fields with significant experience in practice, examine how the obligations to protect these rights have been applied today, including their application to the Security Council and to non-state actors, as well as in the context of development and dispossession. They provide important universal and regional comparative perspectives on the development and implementation of these rights, and consider some of the contemporary issues relating to these rights, such as trade, health, and social security

Cultural rights · Economic growth · Economics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Political science · Social rights · Treaty · Human Rights and Development · Law · Civil rights & citizenship · Constitutional · Cultural Policy · Current Events · Economic policy · International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights · International Relations - General · Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights · Politics · Public Policy - General · United Nations

Tools

Open DOI