Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook
Eide Asbjørn, Krause, Catarina &
Rosas, Allan (eds):
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 2001.
The highly successful first edition of this
book, which was published in 1995, was the first comprehensive
textbook on internationally recognized economic, social and
cultural rights. While focusing on this category of rights, it
also analysed their relationship to other human rights, civil
and political rights in particular. This second, revised
edition updates and revises the first, and supplements it with
a number of new chapters. These include chapters on the
domestic realization of economic, social and cultural rights,
on the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
on economic and social rights in the European Union as well as
on multinational enterprises and economic, social and cultural
rights. Furthermore, a number of chapters have been written by
new authors, such as the chapters on the right to health, on
human rights and protection of the environment, on women and
on international development finance institutions.
CONTENTS
I CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES
1. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A
Universal Challenge (Asbjørn Eide & Allan Rosas)
2. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
(Asbjørn Eide)
3. Economic and Social Rights as Legal Rights (Martin
Scheinin)
4. The Protection of Economic and Social Rights in Domestic
Legal Systems (Sandra Liebenberg)
5. Cultural Rights: A Social Science Perspective (Rodolfo
Stavenhagen)
6. The Right of Self-Determination (Allan Rosas)
7. The Right to Development (Allan Rosas)
II SELECTED ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
RIGHTS
8. The Right to an Adequate Standard of
Living Including the Right to Food (Asbjørn Eide)
9. The Human Right to Adequate Housing (Scott Leckie)
10. The Right to Health (Brigit Toebes)
11. The Right to Property (Catarina Krause)
12. The Right to Social Security (Martin Scheinin)
13. The Right to Work and Rights in Work (Krzysztof
Drzewicki)
14. The Right to Education (Manfred Nowak)
15. The Right to Human Rights Education (Gudmundur
Alfredsson)
16. Cultural Rights as Individual Human Rights (Asbjørn
Eide)
17. Human Rights and Protection of the Environment (Günther
Handl)
III SELECTED BENEFICIARIES AND SITUATIONS
18. Women (Katarina Frostell & Martin
Scheinin)
19. Children (Thomas Hammarberg)
20. Minorities and Indigenous Peoples (Anne-Christine
Bloch)
21. Migrant Workers (Jan Niessen)
22. Armed Conflicts (Allan Rosas & Monika Sandvik-Nylund)
IV IMPLEMENTATION AND REALIZATION
23. Implementation Mechanisms and Remedies
(Allan Rosas & Martin Scheinin)
24. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(Matthew Craven)
25. Technical Cooperation in the Field of Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (Gudmundur Alfredsson)
26. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the External
Relations of the European Union (Allan Rosas)
27. Protecting Social Rights in the European Union (Erika
Szyszczak)
28. International Development Finance Institutions: The World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund (Sia Spiliopoulou
Åkermark)
29. Indicators (Katarina Tomaevski)
30. The Use of Indicators in the Practice of the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Asbjørn Eide)
31. Obstacles and Goals to Be Pursued (Asbjørn Eide)
32. Multinational Enterprises and Emergent Jurisprudence on
Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Craig
Scott)
