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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Action
Professor, Baderin, Mashood Professor of Law, SOAS, University of London
Professor, McCorquodale, Robert Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham
Print publication date: 2007 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921790-8
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217908.003.0001
1 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Forty Years of Development
Mashood A. Baderin
Robert McCorquodale
This chapter begins with the history of the drafting of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), it sets out some of the core conceptual debates about economic, social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), including their justiciability and the nature of the relevant legal obligations. It then discusses the three main themes of the book: the structure and scope of obligations under the ICESCR; regional and comparative understandings of ESC rights; and applications of these rights. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.
Keywords: ICESCR, economic rights, social rights, cultural rights,
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217908.003.0001
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PART I INTRODUCTION
1 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Forty Years of Development
PART II THE STRUCTURE AND SCOPE OF OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE ICESCR
2 Towards Integration of United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body Recommendations: The Rights-Based Approach Model
3 Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Towards Accountability
4 The Violence of Dispossession: Extra-Territoriality and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
5 The Applicability of Economic and Social Rights to the UN Security Council
6 Non-State Actors and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
PART III REGIONAL AND COMPARATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS OF ESC RIGHTS
7 The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Implementation of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Africa
8 Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American System
9 Violations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: The Current Use and Future Potential of the Collective Complaints Mechanism of the European Social Charter
10 Economic and Social Interests and the European Convention on Human Rights
11 The United Kingdom and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
PART IV APPLICATIONS OF ESC RIGHTS
12 A Human Rights-Based Approach to Health Indicators
13 The Rights to Social Security and Social Assistance: Towards an Analytical Framework
14 Democracy and the Promotion and Protection of Socio-Economic Rights
15 Trade to Live or Live to Trade: The World Trade Organization, Development, and Poverty
16 The Right to Development as Applied in National Law
17 Culture, Cultures, and Cultural Rights
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