Giving Meaning to Economic, Social, and Cultural RightsIsfahan Merali, Valerie Oosterveld University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001 - 278 pages The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text. However, for most of the fifty years since the Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the focus of the international community has been on civil and political rights. This focus has slowly shifted over the past two decades. Recent international human rights treaties—such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women—grant equal importance to protecting and advancing nonpolitical rights. |
Contents
Toward the Institutional Integration of the Core Human Rights Treaties | 7 |
From Division to Integration Economic Social and Cultural Rights as Basic Human Rights | 39 |
Defending Womens Economic and Social Rights Some Thoughts on Indivisibility and a New Standard of Equality | 52 |
Applying CrossCutting Analysis | 69 |
Human Rights Mean Business Broadening the Canadian Approach to Business and Human Rights | 71 |
Feminism After the State The Rise of the Market and the Future of Womens Rights | 95 |
Advancing Safe Motherhood Through Human Rights | 109 |
Canadas New Child Support Guidelines Do They Fulfill Canadas International Law Obligations to Children? | 124 |
Implementing Economic Social and Cultural Rights The Role of National Human Rights Institutions | 139 |
Bringing Economic Social and Cultural Rights Home Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel | 160 |
The Maya Petition to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights Indigenous Land and Resource Rights and the Conflict over Logging and Oil ... | 180 |
Notes | 213 |
Contributors | 263 |
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Acknowledgments | |
Giving Meaning Protection and Justiciability of Economic Social and Cultural Rights | 137 |
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