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Closing the Rights Gap : From Human Rights to Social Transformation /
"'Rights' language and practices have been used increasingly in the last decade to address conditions of economic, social, and cultural marginalization. It is still unclear, however, whether such efforts have been effective at promoting transformative social change. Have rights - as e...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: making sense of the multiple and complex pathways by which human rights are realized / LaDawn Haglund and Robin Stryker
- Do non-human rights regimes undermine the achievement of economic and social rights? / M. Rodwan Abouharb, David l. Cingranelli, and Mikhail Filippov
- Linking law and economics : translating economic and social human rights norms into public policy / William F. Felice
- Advances and ongoing challenges in the protection of indigenous peoples' rights within the inter-American system and the United Nations special procedures system / Leonardo J. Alvarado
- The impact of legal strategies for claiming economic and social rights / Varun Gauri and Daniel Brinks
- The role of human rights law in protecting environmental rights in South Asia / Sumudu Atapattu
- The morality of law : the case against deportation of settled immigrants / Doris Marie Provine
- Social movements and the expansion of economic and social human rights advocacy among international NGOs / Paul J. Nelson
- The challenge of ensuring food security : global perspectives and evidence from India / Shareen Hertel and Susan Randolph
- Achieving rights to land, water and health in post-apartheid South Africa / Heinz Klug
- Social accountability in the World Bank : how does it overlap with human and ESCR rights? / Hans-Otto Sano
- Making the principle of progressive realization operational : the SERF index, an index for monitoring state fulfillment of economic and social rights obligations / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer, and Susan Randolph
- Deepening our understanding of rights realization through disaggregation and mapping: integrating census data and participatory GIS / Rimjhim Aggarwal and Ladawn Haglund
- Studying courts in context : the role of non-judicial institutional and socio-political realities / Siri Gloppen
- Conclusion: emerging possibilities for social transformation / Robin Stryker and LaDawn Haglund.