Human Rights And The Global Marketplace Economic, Social And Cultural Dimensions

At a time of great change, turmoil, and contradictions in international human rights laws 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 inform-ative and provocative. Intended for use in law school, graduate, and undergraduate survey courses as well as seminars on human rights, the book will be useful for teachers using either international or comparative approaches, or both. The book is divided into four accessible parts: "Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: Discursive Themes," introduces the nature and scope of human rights discourse. The section alerts students to the vast array of issues that fall within the purview of "human rights," and explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of rights discourse in general and economic and social rights in particular. "International Instruments and Their Implementation," takes students through an array of international and regional human rights treaties that address economic, social and cultural rights. In addition to excerpts of relevant treaties, each chapter also provides examples of how the implementing bodies associated with those treaties do their work. "Power, Politics, and Poverty: Structural Obstacles to the Realization of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights" addresses major controversies in, and barriers to, the realization of socio-economic and cultural rights. Also included is the relationship of human rights and development to the globalization of trade, as well as to migration and trafficking of human beings. "Comparative Approaches" is valuable for international human rights, comparative law, and comparative constitutional law courses. The section provides students with an introduction to the rapidly developing jurisprudence on economic, social, and cultural rights in India, South Africa, Europe, and the United States and, by doing so, contradicts the notion that economic, social, and cultural rights are not just justiciable in domestic international courts. Plus, the volume features valuable appendices with a bibliography of texts and articles on the general subject of ESC rights and a selection of NGOs that focus on these issues. Throughout the book, the authors provide notes, questions, and "further reading" suggestions to stimulate classroom discussion, debate, and research.Woods, Jeanne M. is the author of 'Human Rights And The Global Marketplace Economic, Social And Cultural Dimensions' with ISBN 9781571052742 and ISBN 1571052747.