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The State of Economic and Social Human Rights

The State of Economic and Social Human Rights A Global Overview

Author: Lanse Minkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107609136
Published In: March 2013
Format: Paperback , 403 pages
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This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions about economic and social rights performance around the world by emphasizing the obstacles that prevent governments from fulfilling their obligations. The interdisciplinary analysis offers a detailed and up-to-date discussion to help scholars and policy makers find the best ways to instantiate economic and social rights. The authors examine the role of the associated obligations, and especially the obstacles to respect, protect and fulfil those obligations. The book's introductory and concluding chapters address conceptual issues and correct mistakes often made by critics of economic and social rights.

• Presents an up-to-date status assessment of core economic and social rights

• Focuses on obstacles that prevent governments from fulfilling their economic and social rights obligations

• Presents a multidisciplinary analysis

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
1. Introduction: Why Economic and Social Human Rights? Lanse Minkler	1
I: Core Rights
2. The Right to Food: A Global Perspective Susan Randolph and Shareen Hertel	21
3. Globalization and the Right to Health Audrey R. Chapman and Salil D. Benegal	61
4. Demolishing Housing Rights in the Name of Market Fundamentalism: The Dynamics of Displacement in the United States, India, and South Africa Cathy Albisa, Brittany Scott, and Kate Tissington	86
5. Implementation of the Human Right to Social Security around the World: A Preliminary Analysis of National Social Protections Laws Lyle Scruggs, Christian Zimmermann, and Christopher Jeffords	117
6. Why Is the Right to Work So Hard to Secure? Philip Harvey	135
II: Nondiscrimination
7. The Rights of the Child to an Adequate Standard of Living: Applying International Standards to the U.S. Case Kathryn Libal and Ken Neubeck	175
8. Achieving Women's Economic Rights, in Policy and in Practice Catherine Buerger	204
9. Statelessness and Economic and Social Rights Kristy A. Belton	221
III: Meta
10. Establishing a Social and International Order for the Realization of Human Rights Mark Gibney	251
11. Beyond a Minimum Threshold: The Right to Social Equality Gillian MacNaughton	271
12. The Right to Development from a Human Rights Approach: Conceptual Bases, Legal Framework, and Contemporary Challenges Flavia Piovesan	306
13. Constitutional Environmental Human Rights: A Descriptive Analysis of 142 National Constitutions Christopher Jeffords	329
14. Conclusion: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Economic and Social Rights Michael Freeman	365
Index	389