"This book was developed based upon an experts meeting organized at the Villa Moynier in Geneva on 10 and 11 February 2011. The initiative was part of the Swiss Human Rights Chair's projects supported by the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and implemented by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (the Geneva Academy)."--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
I. Introduction 1. Gilles Giacca, Christophe Golay, and Eibe Riedel: Addressing the Issues and Challenges Confronting ESC Rights II. Challenges in the Protection of ESC Rights in Times of Crisis 2. Gilles Giacca: The Protection of Socio-Economic Rights in Armed Conflict: Challenges and Prospects 3. Mary Dowell-Jones: The Bond Markets and Socio-Economic Rights: Understanding the Challenge of Austerity 4. Ignazio Saiz and Sally-Anne Way: The Global Economic Crisis and its Implications for Economic and Social Rights 5. Olivier De Schutter: Companies and ESC Rights: The Need for a New Deal? III. Interrelationship of ESC Rights with other Legal Regimes 6. Hans Morten Haugen: Trade and Investment Agreements: What Role for ESC Rights in International Economic Law? 7. Holger P. Hestermeyer: ESC Rights in the World Trade Organization: Legal Aspects and Reality 8. Jorge E. Viñuales and Stéphanie Chuffard: From the Other Shore: ESC Rights from an International Environmental Law Perspective 9. Michelle Foster: International Refugee Law and Socio-Economic Rights 10. Larissa van den Herik: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- International Criminal Law's Blind Spot? IV. Challenges of Non-discrimination and equality in ESC rights 11. Ioana Cismas: Revisiting the Intersection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Civil and Political Rights 12. Sandra Ratjen: Non-Discrimination, Substantive Equality, and the realization of ESC Rights for All 13. Christine Chinkin: ESC Rights and Gender V. New Concepts and Tools to Measure the Progressive Realization of ESC Rights 14. Eibe Riedel: Indicators and Benchmarks -- A Golden Metwand for ESC Rights Monitoring? 15. Aoife Nolan: Budget Analysis and Economic and Social Rights 16. Simon Walker: Human Rights Impact Assessments: Emerging Practice and Challenges 17. Tahmina Karimova: Obligation of International Assistance and Cooperation in Development Cooperation: A Legal Map with Areas of Shade and Light 18. Sigrun Skogly: 'Available Resources' and Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations: the Qualitative Challenge to International Assistance and Cooperation VI. New Trends in Monitoring ESC Rights at the International and National Level 19. Nico Schrijver: The International Court of Justice and ESC Rights 20. Malcolm Langford: New Trends in National Jurisprudence on ESC Rights 21. Duncan Wilson and Allison Corkery: The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Monitoring ESC Rights 22. Frank Haldemann and Rachelle Kouassi: ESC Rights and Transitional Justice.
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