The State of Economic and Social Human Rights : A Global Overview
Lanse. Minkler
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (408 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Why Economic and Social Human Rights?; 1. What Are Economic and Social Human Rights?; 2. Some Contemporary Issues; a. Foundations; b. Costs; c. On the Interdependence and Indivisibility of All Human Rights; 3. Sections and Chapters; a. Core Rights; b. Nondiscrimination; c. Meta Rights; I Core Rights; 2 The Right to Food: A Global Perspective; I. Introduction; II. The Right to Food Under International Law; III. Global and National Level Drivers of Hunger; A. Global Drivers of Hunger; B. National Drivers of Hunger. - 2. Changing the Question3. Challenging Assumptions; a. Ownership Trumps All; b. State Provision of Alternative Accommodation; c. Engagement; 4. Conclusion; 5 Implementation of the Human Right to Social Security around the World: A Preliminary Analysis of National Social Protections Laws; I. Introduction; II. Measuring the Scope of Social Security Laws; III. Social Protection Rights around the World 1969-2010; A. Expansion of Legal Protections; B. ICESCR and Legal Protection; B. An Index of the Breadth of Social Security Rights; IV. Accounting for Legalization of Social Protection. - A. Treaty AccessionB. Income; C. Other Influences: Democracy, Legal Traditions, Ethnic Fragmentation; V. Results; VI. Conclusion; 6 Why Is the Right to Work So Hard to Secure?; Introduction; The United States' Failure to Secure the Right to Work; The New Deals Anticipation of the Universal Declaration; The New Deal Human Rights Vision; The Substitution of Keynesian Fiscal Policy for Direct Job Creation in the Progressive Employment Strategy; Progressive Employment Policy from the End of World War II to the End of the "60s"; Progressive Employment Policy since the End of the "60s". - IV. Monitoring Compliance with Global and National Level Obligations to Respect, Protect, and Fulfill the Right to FoodA. Commitments to Uphold the Right to Food; World Commitments; State Level Commitments; B. Efforts Toward the Realization of the Right to Food; Global Efforts; National Efforts; C. Securing the Right to Food; V. Conclusion; 3 Globalization and the Right to Health; Introduction; Implications of Globalization for Right to Health; Impact on Health Trends; Impact on Health Access and Health Systems; Impact on the Social Determinants of Health. - Impact of Globalization on the Availability of Health Personnel in Poor CountriesImpact of Transnational Actors on the Right to Health; World Bank and Structural Adjustment; World Trade Organization, TRIPS Agreement, and Access to Essential Medicines; International Aid Donors; Conclusion; 4 Demolishing Housing Rights in the Name of Market Fundamentalism: The Dynamics of Displacement in the United States, India, and South Africa; 1. Introduction; a. Mumbai, India: Whose World-Class City?; b. Chicago, Illinois: Left out of the Loop; c. Johannesburg, South Africa: Resisting Inner-City Evictions. - The Future of Progressive Employment Policy. - Offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology.
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| ISBN | 9781107028029. - 9781107609136
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