Posts Tagged ‘social-and-cultural-rights-escr’
Fiscal Policy in the Service of Human Rights
How, exactly, is fiscal policy related to human rights?
Read More“Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance” published by Cambridge University is now available
The book “Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance”, edited by César Rodríguez Garavito, director of Dejusticia, Malcolm Langford (Univ. Oslo) and Julieta Rossi (Univ. Lanús) was just published.
Read MoreStates must guarantee the ESCR of refugees and migrants
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) published a new press release clarifying the obligations that derive from the International Covenant on ESCR regarding refugee and migrant populations in each country.
Read MoreIntervention Litigating Article that Establishes Sales Tax
We intervened before the Constitution Court litigating the unconstitutionality of Numera 3 of Article 171 of Law 1607 of 2012, that modifies taxes and establish a sales tax.
Read MoreHuman Rights in Times of Austerity, Who Should Answer?
The adjustment policies that resulted from the Troika negotiations have meant a heavy weight that, as in Aeschylus’s tragedy, have fallen relentlessly and ruthlessly on the human rights of the Greek people.
Read MoreThis is How Slavery Works in the 21st Century
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that there are approximately 20.9 million slaves, of which 26 percent are children. This is more enslaved people than during any other point in history.
Read MoreBusiness and Human Rights in India: Time for a National Action Plan?
The economic development that the government is promising, and that a large majority of people in the country are hoping for, could spell disaster for certain communities if checks and balances are not put at the right place at the right time.
Read MoreRighting Wrongs: The Case for Socioeconomic Rights
These numbers not only present an economic opportunity, but also a moral challenge.
Read MoreRights after Trial: Confronting the Non-Implementation Problem of ESCR Litigation
Since the artificial division of human rights into civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) on the other, activists have struggled to ensure equal protection of the latter in domestic and international courts.
Read MoreUsing Global South Strategies to Solve “Third World” Problems in the Global North
Activists can look to strategies activists from the South employed to claim ESCR rights before courts recognized their justiciability.
Read MoreThe Battle Against Informality
In order to understand the effects of winning the battle against informality, we need to consider both what formality does, and whom it serves.
Read More“First World Problems:” Why Can’t Everyone Have Them?
I am sure the unemployed, the homeless, the families going hungry in the United States and Europe, as well as in India, China and South Africa, can remind global elites that we still have a long way to go in ensuring that all people have a respectable standard of living.
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