Closing the Rights Gap : From Human Rights to Social Transformation /

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Do "human rights"-as embodied in constitutions, national laws, and international agreements-foster improvements in the lives of the poor or otherwise marginalized populations? When, where, how, and under what conditions? Closing the Rights Gap: From Human Rights to Social Transformation sy...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haglund, LaDawn (Editor ), Stryker, Robin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
Temas:
Human rights and globalization.
Human rights.
Social justice.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • LIST OF MAPS
  • LIST OF TABLES AND BOXES
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Making Sense of the Multiple and Complex Pathways by which Human Rights Are Realized
  • Chapter 1. Do Non-Human Rights Regimes Undermine the Achievement of Economic and Social Rights?
  • Chapter 2. Linking Law and Economics: Translating Economic and Social Human Rights Norms into Public Policy
  • Chapter 3. Advances and Ongoing Challenges in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Rights within the Inter-American System and the United Nations Special Procedures System
  • Chapter 4. The Impact of Legal Strategies for Claiming Economic and Social Rights
  • Chapter 5. The Role of Human Rights Law in Protecting Environmental Rights in South Asia
  • Chapter 6. The Morality of Law: The Case against Deportation of Settled Immigrants
  • Chapter 7. Social Movements and the Expansion of Economic and Social Human Rights Advocacy among International NGOs
  • Chapter 8. The Challenge of Ensuring Food Security: Global Perspectives and Evidence from India
  • Chapter 9. Achieving Rights to Land, Water, and Health in Post- Apartheid South Africa
  • Chapter 10. Social Accountability in the World Bank: How Does It Overlap with Human Rights?
  • Chapter 11. Making the Principle of Progressive Realization Operational: The SERF Index, an Index for Monitoring State Fulfillment of Economic and Social Rights Obligations
  • Chapter 12. Deepening Our Understanding of Rights Realization through Disaggregation and Mapping Integrating Census Data and Participatory GIS
  • Chapter 13. Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities
  • Conclusion: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation
  • Index

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