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Judicial protection of economic, social, and cultural rights : cases and materials /

"This volume seeks to bring together, for the first time, a collection of documents and case-law from different parts of the world, which shows the Courts at work in providing judicial protection of economic, social and cultural rights." "One conclusion stands out from these cases: th...

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Other Authors: Ramcharan, B. G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff, 2005.
Series:Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 22.
Subjects:
Civil rights > Cases.
Human rights > Cases.
Social rights > Cases.
Trials, litigation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • III. The content of the legal obligation to implement economic, social and cultural rights
  • The Travaux Preparatoires
  • CESCR General Comment No. 3.
  • IV. Principles of implementation
  • The Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
  • V. Progressive implementation
  • Thiagraj Soobramoney v. Minister of Health (Kwazulu-Natal)
  • Constitutional Court of South Africa.
  • VI. Non-discrimination
  • F. H. Zwaan-de Vries v. the Netherlands
  • Human Rights Committee
  • S. W. M. Broeks v. the Netherlands
  • Human Rights Committee.
  • VII. The right to adequate food
  • CESCR General Comment No. 12
  • World Food Summit: five years later.
  • VIII. The right to the highest attainable standard of health
  • CESCR General Comment No. 14
  • Minister of Health and Others v. Treatment Action Campaign and Others
  • Constitutional Court of South Africa
  • C.E.S.C. Limited v. Subbash Chandra Bose
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Consumer Education and Research Centre and Others v. Union of India and Others
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Decision regarding Communication No. 155/96, The Social and Economic Rights Action Center and the Center for Economic and Social Rgihts / Nigeria
  • African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
  • IX. The right to education
  • CESCR General Comment No. 13
  • Saburo Ienaga v. the Japanese Government
  • Tokyo High Court
  • Mohini Jian (Miss) v. State of Karnataka and Others
  • Supreme Court of India.
  • X. The right to work
  • The Attorney General of Guyana v. Caterpillar Americas Co.
  • Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Cooperative Republic of Guyana
  • Rudolph James, 'The right to work', Guyana Bar Association Review Vol. No. 5, December 1983
  • Mahendra Ramgopal, 'The right to work versus dismissal at pleasure in the Cooperative Republic of Guyana', Guyana Bar Association Review Vol. No. 5, December 1983
  • Mr. L. v. the Municipality of Hollola
  • Supreme Court of Finland
  • ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its follow-up
  • Air India Statutory Corporation etc. v. United Labour Union and Others
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Daily rated casual labour employed under P & T through Bharatiya Dak Tar Madoor Manch v. Union of India and Others and Naitonal Federation of P & T Employees through its Secretary General and another v. Union of India and another
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Life Insurance Corporation of India and Another v. Consumer Education and Research Centre and Others
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Sexual harassment
  • Apparel Export Promotion Council v. A. K. Chopra
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Bandhua Mukti Morcha, etc. v. Union of India and Others
  • Supreme Court of India.
  • XI. The right to housing
  • The Government of the Republic of South Africa, the Premier of the Province of the Western Cape, the Cape Metropolitan Council and the Oostenberg Municipality v. Irene Grootboom and others
  • Constitutional Court of South Africa
  • P.G. Gupta v. State of Gujarat and Others
  • Supreme Court of India
  • M/s. Shantistar Builders v. Narayan Khimalal Totame and Others
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Olga Tellis and Others v. Bombay Municipal Corporation and Others and Vayyapuri Kuppusami and Ohters v. State of Maharashtra and Others
  • Supreme Court of India.
  • XII. The right to property
  • Alina Simunek et al. v. the Czech Republic
  • Human Rights Committee
  • G. Ato del Avellanal v. Peru
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Josef Frank Adam v. the Czech Republic
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Ibrahima Gueye et al. v. France
  • Human Rights Committee
  • The Attorney General of Guyana v. Caterpillar Americas Company
  • the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Cooperative Republic of Guyana
  • Milovan Poropat, Senija Poropat, Muradifa Seremet and Muhamed Hrelja v. Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • XIII. The right to a safe environment
  • Bulankulama and Others v. The Secretary, Ministry of Industrial Development and Others
  • the Supreme Court of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
  • XIV. The right to social security
  • Dietmar Pauger v. Austria
  • Human Rights Committee
  • Vos v. the Netherlands
  • Human Rights Committee.
  • XV. Other
  • Complaint No. 1/1998 by the International Commission of Jurists against Portugal
  • Council of Europe
  • Kitok v. Sweden
  • Human Rights Committee
  • R. T. v. France
  • Human Rights Committee
  • R. D. Stalla Costa v. Uruguay
  • Human Rights Committee.
  • XVI. Violations of economic, social and cultural rights
  • The Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

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