Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Economic, Social, and Cultural Dimensions / Jeanne Woods, Hope Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, Jeanne, author.

Lewis, Hope, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Human Rights (International Law).

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2005.

Summary:

Special adoption price: USD95.00/copy, 10 or more At a time of great change, turmoil, and contradiction in international human rights law and politics, authors Jeanne M. Woods and Hope Lewis have responded to the growing need for a classroom text that focuses squarely on economic, social, and cultural rights-"the neglected step-children of the human rights family"-and their intimate inter-relationship to civil and political rights. Students and instructors will find the results informative and provocative. Intended for use in law school, graduate, and undergraduate survey courses, as well as seminars on human rights, this book will be useful for teachers using both international and comparative approaches. The text is divided into four accessible parts: I. "Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Discursive Themes" introduces the nature and scope of human rights discourse. II. "International Instruments and Their Implementation" takes students through an array of international and regional human rights treaties that address economic, social, and cultural rights. III. "Power, Politics, and Poverty: Structural Challenges to the Realization of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights" addresses major controversies in, and barriers to, the realization of socio-economic and cultural rights. IV. "Comparative Approaches" is valuable for international human rights, comparative law, and comparative constitutional law courses. Throughout the book, the authors provide notes, questions, and further reading suggestions to stimulate classroom discussion, debate, and research. The volume also includes valuable appendices, with a bibliography of relevant texts and articles and a selection of NGOs that focus on these issues. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint. Winner of the Notable Contribution in the Field of Human Rights Scholarship award at the US Human Rights Network National Conference in Chicago in April 2008.

Contents:

PART I - HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE: DISCURSIVE THEMES

Chapter One: Global Narratives/Global Realities

Chapter Two: Theoretical Paradigms

A. Historical Roots

B. Foundations of Liberal Rights Discourse

C. Critical Voices

D. Cultural Relativism

E. Justiciability and Democratic Accountability

PART II - INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION

Chapter Three: International Treaties

A. The International Bill of Rights

B. The Race Convention

C. The Women's Convention

D. The Convention on the Rights of the Child

E. The International Labour Organization

Chapter Four: Regional Charters

A. The Inter-American System

B. The European Systems

C. The African Union

PART III - POWER, POLITICS, AND POVERTY: STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES TO THE REALIZATION OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Chapter Five: Human Development and Human Rights

Introduction: Perspectives on Poverty and Development

A. The IFIs: Enforcing the Washington Consensus

B. Women in and Under Development

C. Is Development a Human Right?

Chapter Six: Self-Determination, Culture, and Rights: Conflicts, Challenges, and Possibilities

A. Self-Determination: Indigenous Peoples, Foreign Occupation

B. Language

C. The "Exotic Other" - Gender, Culture, and Religious Traditions

PART IV - COMPARATIVE APPROACHES

Chapter Seven: India: The "Directive Principles" Approach

A. Judicial Discourse on Poverty and Rights

B. Addressing the Status of Women and Children

C. Neoliberalism and the Limits of Judicial Intervention: Taking Off the Mask?

Chapter Eight: South Africa: The Bill of Rights Approach

A. The Historical Context

B. The Constitutional Entrenchment of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights

Chapter Nine: The Council of Europe - A Blending of the Categories

A. The European Convention of Human Rights

B. Eligibility for Social Security and Welfare Benefits

C. Right to a Safe Environment

D. The Right to Free Legal Aid

E. The Positive Dimension of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

F. Equal Protection

Chapter Ten: The United States of America: Federal Rejection, State Protection

A. The Federal System

B. State Constitutions

C. Erasing the Divide: Internationalizing the Rights Struggle.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-47998-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004479982 DOI