Evicted families, millions of people without access to health, water and sanitation, environmental damage, overwhelming poverty and economic inequality. This book explores the new possibilities opening for the law to operate in favor of the effective enjoyment of economic and social human rights, especially through the interpretative development of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its individual communications procedure inaugurated in 2013. A historical, normative and doctrinal review uncovers the different ways in which international human rights law has addressed socioeconomic rights, including their treatment in the European, Inter-American and African human rights systems, and addresses the broader implications of the justiciability of these rights for equality, social justice and dignity, understood from a human rights and gender perspective. It also includes a particular analysis of Spain as a prototypical case study given it constitutes, to date, the main focus of action of the Committee on ESC Rights. Throughout the text, the potential of this renewed international legal framework is revealed, the use of which is crucial for the benefit of human rights at this time of profound global transformation.
Speakers: Dorothy Estrada Tanck
Sponsors: RCC; Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School (HLS) University of Murcia, Spain; UNAM-Boston
LOCATION:RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20221115T170000Z DTEND:20221115T181500Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR