Anne Gallagher Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Economic, Social, and Cultural RightsCondition: NewSubtitle: A Legal Resource GuideAuthor: Anne GallagherContributor: Anne Gallagher (Edited by), Scott Leckie (Edited by)Format: HardbackISBN-10: 0812239164EAN: 9780812239164ISBN: 9780812239164Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Language & ReferenceRelease Date: 04/11/2006Description: In response to a growing global awareness of human poverty and the increasing potential of human rights law as a tool that can be used by the poor to achieve their basic rights, the international body of law, policy and relevant standards on economic, social, and cultural rights has expanded markedly in recent years. Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide provides, for the first time, a comprehensive, consolidated source of most major international agreements recognizing economic, social and cultural rights.Readers interested in workers' rights, trade union rights, the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to housing, the right to food, the right to health, the right to education, and the right to culture will find this book a vital source of information on the exact legal sources, definitions, and enforcement possibilities associated with these rights. The guide contains key treaties, declarations, general comments, interpretive texts, and charters.Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide is an indispensable reference work for all those working in the field of international human rights law. Lawyers, researchers, governmental civil servants, ministerial officials, NGO staff, United Nations and other international officials, aid agencies, community-based organizations, students, and others will find this consolidated source of materials on economic, social, and cultural rights a useful addition to any reference library.Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Legal Resource Guide is organized in an easy-to-use format and is accessible to both lawyers and nonlawyers. The inclusion of legal, policy, and explanatory standards on economic, social, and cultural rights will enable the reader to know not only the law on these rights but the actual meaning accorded these rights under the law.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmBook Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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