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Effectiveness of the ICESCR Complaint Mechanism - An Analysis and Discussion of the Spanish Housing Rights Cases
No full textAgainst the backdrop of the Spanish housing rights crisis of the past decade, this chapter examines the impact and effectiveness of the outcome of cases of alleged violations of the right to adequate housing lodged with the UNCESCR against Spain as part of the individual complaint mechanism under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The authors conclude that, through its active engagement with housing rights issues (in particular evictions), theUNCESCRhas made an important contribution to rendering the right to adequate housing effective, especially in situations of vulnerable victims. Given that the Committee is not a judicial body and that its jurisprudence does not constitute judgements, it can be said that its views and recommendations have increased its normative legitimacy within certain segments of Spanish society, such as civil society. However, the various branches of the Spanish government still have to accept theViews and recommendations of the Committee as the outcome of a process of international scrutiny of domestic issues that is authoritative and persuasive, while at the same time leaving the sovereign decision-making power unaffected.</p
Education and Work
No full textThis chapter discusses two human rights that belong to the category of economic, social, and cultural rights: the right to education and the right to work. It explains how the modern view of the nature of economic, social, and cultural rights can be applied to these rights. The chapter discusses the sources of the rights under international human rights law, their main features, and components; the obligations resulting from each right; and the relationship of each right with other human rights. Both rights are crucial for the ability to live a life in dignity and develop one’s personality
Fons Coomans/Menno T. Kamminga (Hrsg.): Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties / [rezensiert von] Bernhard Schäfer
No full textrezensiertes Werk: Coomans, Fons ; Kamminga, Menno T. (Hrsg.): Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties. - Antwerp/Oxford : Intersentia, 2004. - 281 S. ISBN 90-5095-394-
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Defending human dignity ::the role of the human rights activist and the scholar /
No full textThis booklet contains the texts of the Theo van Boven Lectures held in 2014 and 2015. They deal with the subject of defending human dignity by looking at the different roles the human rights defender, the scholar and the human rights NGO can play in achieving this goal. Hina Jilani looks at the opportunities and limitations of human rights defenders in their fight to stand up for the protection of human dignity. Jean Allain discusses the role of the legal scholar in studying contemporary forms of slavery. Finally Aidan McQuade denounces practices of slavery from the perspective of a human rights NGO. The Theo van Boven Lecture Series are organised annually by the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights as a tribute to Theo van Boven, emeritus Professor of International Law at Maastricht University, and formerly Director of the UN Division of Human Rights, member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. The themes covered by the lectures reflect the wide range of interests of Theo van Boven. This publication is interesting for human rights practitioners, scholars and students
Rights-Based Governance: The Need for Strong State Obligations to Protect Human Rights in an Era of Globalisation
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