I Book Review: The Netherlands and the Development of International Human Rights Instruments

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-117
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
International Human

scholarly journals Protecting working welfare recipients through human rights experimentalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Elise Dermine ◽  
Anja Eleveld
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
International Human

Abstract In this paper, we adopt an experimentalist approach to determining the content of international human rights for assessing national mandatory work programmes for recipients of social assistance (MWPs). This approach implies going back and forth between law and experience in order to determine the better way to secure human rights in an ever-changing environment. After having identified six criteria for evaluating MWPs in the soft case-law of international bodies, we confront this emerging international human rights framework with an empirical study on MWP practices in the Netherlands. This confrontation reveals that specific aspects of the capability for voice of working welfare recipients are absent in the human rights framework and that the framework is not gender-neutral. Including these aspects, we construct an experimentalist human-rights-based instrument that is suitable for evaluating national MWPs.

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