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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law : Contemporary Issues and Challenges by Eibe H Riedel; Gilles Giacca; Christophe Golay; Switzerland Eidgenössisches Departement für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten; Académie de droit international humanitaire et de droits humains à Genève is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in December 2008. The Protocol gives individuals and groups the ability to bring complaints about rights violations before the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Against this background, this book focuses on the question of how fundamental socio-economic human rights enshrined in international law are defined, interpreted, understood, and implemented. It assesses how effective efforts to realize ESC rights have been and investigates the contemporary challenges obstructing their protection. It sets out the impact of the global financial crisis and austerity measures, the human rights responsibilities of corporations, and trends in the justiciability of those rights at the national and international level. The interrelationship between ESC rights and other legal regimes such as trade and investment law, environmental law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law is also thoroughly examined. Afte

Author

Eibe H Riedel; Gilles Giacca; Christophe Golay; Switzerland Eidgenössisches Departement für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten; Académie de droit international humanitaire et de droits humains à Genève

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191766091

Subjects

Law