The “Poor Cousins”: What, If Anything, Can International Law and Lawyers Do for Social Rights?

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-99
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
The Poor

FROM NIEO TO NOW AND THE UNFINISHABLE STORY OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot E Salomon
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Development ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Reasonable Person ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The World

AbstractWhy have attempts to bring development aspirations to bear on international law over a period of 50 years come to far less than any reasonable person would hope? The early claims for a New International Economic Order and permanent sovereignty by developing countries over their natural resources, efforts to delineate a body of international development law, followed by the affirmation of a human right to development, were all attempts to have economic justice reflected in international law. Figures on world poverty and inequality suggest that international law accommodated no such restructuring. This article explores why it is international law has failed the poor of the world, and what interests it has served in their stead.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE DIGNIFIED HUMAN EXISTENCE IN THE ERA OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paunita Petrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Increased Pressure

International law must take into account all the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and respond adequately to them. It must develop and strengthen the protection of social rights, the right to work, as opposed to the increased pressure on human resources.

Economic and Labor Rights of Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 348-366
Author(s):  
Manfred Liebel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Legal Concepts ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter attempts to answer the question of whether children have economic and labor rights and, if so, what that means in practice. With regard to international law, this chapter attempts to clarify the relationship between different areas of law and the relationship between various legal concepts that are relevant to the protection of children’s economic and labor rights. More specifically, the chapter explores the relationship between human rights in general and children’s rights in particular as well as the relationship between economic and social rights, human and labor rights, and legal and moral rights. This chapter also focuses on working children and their associations and which economic and labor rights they consider necessary. In addition, the chapter discusses how these rights are, or should be, reflected in international law and in national legislation. Finally, the key obstacles to protecting children’s economic and labor rights in international law are discussed, that is, what practical difficulties are to be overcome on the ground to realize and bring to life the economic and labor rights of children.

‘They Take Our Houses’: Benefit Competition and the Erosion of Support for Immigrants' Social Rights

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Gerda Hooijer
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Rich

Abstract Does benefit competition affect voters' support for immigrants' social rights? While scholars in political economy expect that benefit competition lowers support among the poor, the evidence is limited. This seems to be largely due to the reliance on highly aggregated analyses and the neglect of the institutional context in which individuals form their preferences. This article argues that lower-income voters are more likely to reduce their support due to competition when benefit eligibility depends on income. Using individual-level panel data from the Netherlands and a novel way to measure benefit competition, the study shows that lower-middle-income voters become less supportive of immigrants' social rights when more social housing in their municipality is allocated to refugees. By contrast, competition does not reduce support among the rich or the very poor. The findings suggest that benefit competition can erode support for immigrants' social rights and influence electoral politics.

Re-examining States’ External Obligations to Implement Economic and Social Rights of Children

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wabwile
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
State Practice ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Social And Economic Rights

International law on the protection and promotion of social and economic rights of the child binds states parties to respect, protect and secure these rights both in their own territories as well as to contribute to the programmes for such fulfilment in other countries in a strategy aiming at global implementation of these rights. This paper explores the legal basis for states‘ external obligations to support fulfilment of social and economic rights. It surveys inter alia the relevant treaty texts, explanatory resolutions of the UN General Assembly and statements in reports submitted by states parties to the UN monitoring committees, and argues that recent state practice and interpretation of human rights obligations confirms the extraterritorial obligations to support fulfilment of these rights. Since these are obligations to fulfil the rights of human beings in other countries rather than obligations to third states, they can be referred to as ‘diagonal obligations‘ to distinguish them from inter-state horizontal responsibility.

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