nolan (ed.) - economic and social rights after the global financial crisis (2014)

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[...]... an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Her recent books on economic and social rights include Ao i f e N o l a n xiv Notes on contributors Children’s Socio -economic Rights, Democracy & the Courts (2011) and Human Rights & Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights (2013) (co-edited with R O’Connell and C Harvey) is a Reader... law She is the founding coordinator of the Economic and Social Rights Academic Network, UK and Ireland (ESRAN-UKI) She has worked with and acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organisations and bodies working on human rights issues, including the Council of Europe, a range of UN Special Procedures, ESCR-Net, the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum and the International... professor and researcher at various universities in Europe, Latin America and the United States He has served as a consultant for the World/Panamerican Health Organization, UNESCO, the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights He was previously the coordinator of the Economic, ... coordinator of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva) He has written various books and articles (many of them published in Mexico) on human rights, constitutional theory and legal theory and sociology He is author of the ground-breaking Courts and the x Notes on contributors xi Legal Enforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Comparative... to the Socio -economic Rights and Administrative Justice Project, Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University, the Children’s Rights Centre, Queen’s University Belfast and the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, where I spent time while working on the book As always, I owe enormous thanks to my family and friends for their... rights and child protection, juvenile justice and rights of persons with disabilities She holds an LLB from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an LLM, magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University She has taught child rights and welfare law at Tel Aviv University Areas of expertise include welfare law and international human rights law, particularly the rights of the child and economic and social rights. .. and as the Co-Director of the Department of International Law and Human Rights of the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica She has also served as a consultant to several intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Economic. .. (with Martin Sigal and Gustavo Maurino) and several articles on economic, social and cultural rights, access to information and anti-corruption issues E z e qu i e l N i n o is Professor of International Human Rights Law at Nottingham University School of Law She has published extensively in the areas of human rights, particularly in relation to children’s rights and economic and social rights, as well... Security and Nutrition of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) Ms Sepúlveda is a Chilean lawyer who holds a PhD in International Law from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and an LL.M in human rights law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom She has worked as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, as a staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, ... published extensively in the field of human rights and anti-discrimination law, and is currently Vice-President of the European Committee on Social Rights of the Council of Europe He has also acted as a specialist legal advisor to the Joint Committee on Human Rights of the UK Parliament and as UK rapporteur for the European Commission’s network of independent legal experts on anti-discrimination law C . h1" alt="" ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS e global nancial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. ese rights were. Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights. He was previously the coordinator of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project of the International. Democracy & the Courts (201 1) and Human Rights & Public Finance: Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights (201 3) (co-edited with R. O’Connell and C. Harvey). COLM O’CINNEIDE

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Xem thêm: nolan (ed.) - economic and social rights after the global financial crisis (2014), nolan (ed.) - economic and social rights after the global financial crisis (2014), I. Painting the big (global) picture: the crises and economic and social rights protection internationally, III. Exploring responses to financial and economic crises, IV. Conclusions and new post-crisis frontiers, D. Ensuring non-discrimination and equality, III. States’ responses to the crises and their potential threat to the realisation of human rights, B. Cutting spending on public services, C. Implementing socially responsible taxation policies, V. Conclusion – crisis as opportunity: a time for transformative policies, II. The rise of housing finance, IV. Prevalent housing finance policies and their impact on the right to adequate housing of people living in poverty, V. Summing up and setting out an alternative: a human rights-based approach to housing policies, II. The shock of 2008: a short history of the food price crisis, III. The diagnosis: the need for improved consistency across policy areas, A. The reform of the Committee on World Food Security, II. The prohibition of retrogression under Article 2(1) of ICESCR: origins and key questions, III. Accounting for the Committee’s reticence and the challenges posed by the crohibition of retrogression, IV. Giving meaning to the prohibition of retrogression under ICESCR, V. Distilling criteria for determining impermissible retrogression, II. Extraterritorial obligations, ICESCR and the Maastricht Principles, III. Monetary policy, capital flows and extraterritorial obligations, IV. Financial globalisation, contagion and crisis, V. Extraterritorial obligations, global institutions and international cooperation, II. The establishment of the European social model, III. The legal dimension of ‘social Europe’, IV. The slow decay of the European welfare states, V. The crisis of austerity and the hollowness of the political discourse of ‘social Europe’, VI. The limits of European social rights law, VII. The limited impact of international human rights standards in the social sphere, II. Spain’s legal obligations to realise the human right to the highest attainable standard of health, III. The two waves of impacts of recession and austerity on the enjoyment of the human right to health in Spain, A. Austerity measures affect social determinants of health, especially decent work, housing and an adequate standard of living ..., B. Austerity measures threaten the universality, accessibility, affordability and quality of the Spanish health care system, IV. Spain’s austerity-driven responses to the economic crisis – impermissible under international law?, V. Conclusion: remedying retrogression in the right to health, III. Subnational US judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights, IV. Modes of judicial review and socio-economic rights, A. Fostering legislative improvement of public schools, B. Using equality norms to protect health care for immigrants, C. Offering common-law protection against contractual foreclosure, VI. Conclusion: US state courts and socio-economic rights, II. The Colombian constitutional framework: the vital minimum and the social state of law, III. Initial response to crisis: large-scale interventions, middle-class beneficiaries and political pushback, IV. Proportionality and the vital minimum: targeted review of austerity measures, V. The vital minimum and structural interventions for the poor, VI. Conclusions: the value of the minimum core and the Colombian model, A. The development of the crisis, B. The Argentine constitutional context, III. The judiciary and ESR during the economic crisis in Argentina, A. Right to health care, C. Right to adequate housing, A. The classical standard: broad ‘emergency’ powers to restrict economic property rights, B. The 2001 crisis, public policies and judicial review, II. A crisis prior to a crisis? South Africa 1990–2007, III. The global financial crisis reaches South Africa: denial, response and muted recovery, IV. Adjudicating economic and social rights in a recession: case-law from 2009, C. Assessing the cases: recession jurisprudence?, V. Post-2009 developments in the case-law

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Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Table of cases

Table of legislation

List of abbreviations

Introduction

I. Painting the big (global) picture: the crises and economic and social rights protection internationally

II. Teasing out obligations in a time of crisis

III. Exploring responses to financial and economic crises

IV. Conclusions and new post-crisis frontiers

Part I Painting the big (global) picture

1 Alternatives to austerity

I. Introduction

II. Human rights framework

A. Using the maximum resources available

B. Ensuring minimum essential levels of ESCR

C. Avoiding deliberate retrogressive measures

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