Re-thinking Socio-Economic Rights in an Insecure World

Nsongurua Udombana, Violeta Beširević

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9786155211003
• Topic: Politique et relations internationales
• Subtopic: Droits de l'homme

From November 28 - 29, 2005, the Center for Human Rights of Central European University (CEU) organized a roundtable around the theme: Re-thinking Socio-Economic Rights in an Insecure World. The roundtable brought together scholars and human rights practitioners from different regions to reflect on the following questions relating to social and economic rights, particularly in the context of the global insecurity: If social rights are human rights, how does the failure to advance these rights undermine security? Are social rights human rights or do the claims they incorporate represent social needs? Are they moral or legal rights? Who has a duty to respect these rights? Is there a hierarchy among those who have such duties? How can these duties be fulfilled? What is an appropriate approach to social and economic concerns in developing countries? Is the argument for socio-economic rights an argument that overcomes the causes and legacy of conflicts? Do socio-economic rights deserve constitutional protection? What are the problems behind constitutional protection of such rights? Is the vagueness of social and economic rights an enough reason not to assign such rights to people? Is the rhetoric of social and economic rights helpful in protecting marginalized and neglected groups?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright page
• Title page
• Contents
• Preface
• Part One: SOME CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
• Introduction
• The Horizontal Priority of Economic Rights
• Part Two: AN ACCOUNT OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION
• Socio-Economic Rights in the Constitution for Europe: Between Symbolism and Legal Realism
• Grand Promises in the Face of High Expectations: Welfare Rights in Hungarian Constitutional Jurisprudence
• Social and Economic Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court
• Litigating for Socio-Economic Rights on National and International Level: Problems of Standing and Legal Strategies
• Part Three: SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
• The Patrimonial States and Socio-economic Rights in Africa
• Socio-economic Factors of Conflicts - Countering the Risks
• Part Four: SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND MARGINALIZED GROUPS
• Roma Rights, Racial Discrimination and ESC Rights
• List of Contributors
• Index