1st Edition
Vindicating Socio-Economic Rights International Standards and Comparative Experiences
By Paul O'Connell
Copyright 2012
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Notwithstanding the widespread and persistent affirmation of the indivisibility and equal worth of all human rights, socio-economic rights continue to be treated as the "Cinderella" of the human rights corpus. At a domestic level this has resulted in little appetite for the explicit recognition and judicial enforcement of such rights in constitutional democracies. The primary reason for this is... Read more
1. Introduction 2. International Standards on Socio-Economic Rights 3. The South African Experience 4. Developing Social Rights in India 5. The Canadian Charter, Substantive Equality and Social Rights 6. The Rejection of Socio-Economic Rights in Ireland 7. A Model Adjudicative Framework 8. Conclusions
Biography
Paul O'Connell is a lecturer in Law at the University of Leicester, he has published widely on socio-economic rights, and the impact of globalisation on human rights.
