Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights /

Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights / / ed. by Valerie Oosterveld, Isfahan Merali.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text. However, for most of the fifty years since the Declaration was adopted by the General...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Anaya, S. James,
Cook, Rebecca J.,
Farha, Leilani,
Flood, Nora,
Forcese, Craig,
Otto, Dianne,
Puta-Chekwe, Chisanga,
Rittich, Kerry,
Scott, Craig,
Shaffer, Martha,
Tigerstrom, Barbara von,
HerausgeberIn:
Merali, Isfahan,
Oosterveld, Valerie,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2001
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Conceptualizing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Dissolving Categories
  • 1. Toward the Institutional Integration of the Core Human Rights Treaties
  • 2. From Division to Integration: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights as Basic Human Rights
  • 3. Defending Women's Economic and Social Rights: Some Thoughts on Indivisibility and a New Standard of Equality
  • Part II. Current Themes: Applying Cross-Cutting Analysis
  • 4. Human Rights Mean Business: Broadening the Canadian Approach to Business and Human Rights
  • 5. Feminism After the State: The Rise of the Market and the Future of Women's Rights
  • 6. Advancing Safe Motherhood Through Human Rights
  • 7. Canada's New Child Support Guidelines: Do They Fulfill Canada's International Law Obligations to Children?
  • Part III. Giving Meaning: Protection and Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
  • 8. Implementing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions
  • 9. Bringing Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Home: Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel
  • 10. The Maya Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Indigenous Land and Resource Rights and the Conflict over Logging and Oil in Southern Belize
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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