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Economic rights


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    • Economic rights--Law and legislation
    • Socio-economic rights
    • Socioeconomic rights
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    • found: Work cat.: Omara, A. Protecting economic and social rights in a constitutionally strong form of judicial review, 2017:abstr. (The 1999-2002 constitutional amendments to Indonesia's Constitution inserted some important features of a modern constitution. These include the introduction of a comprehensive human rights provision and a new constitutional court. This dissertation focuses on these two features and aims to understand the roles of this new court in protecting economic and social rights (ES rights)) p. 1 (protection of economic and social rights) p. 4 (the constitutional court's enforcement of economic and social rights)
    • found: Human rights, vol. 44, no. 3 (2019):p. 23 (article title: Economic rights: are they justiciable, and should they be?; Human rights scholars recognize five broad categories of rights--civil, political, social, economic, and cultural--outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but rarely practiced in their totality; socioeconomic rights)
    • found: What are economic, social and cultural rights?, via Center for Economic and Social Rights website, May 12, 2020(Economic, social, and cultural rights include the human right to work, the right to an adequate standard of living, including food, clothing, and housing, the right to physical and mental health, the right to social security, the right to a healthy environment, and the right to education. Economic, social and cultural rights are part of the body of human rights law that developed in the aftermath of World War II. Human rights law includes all economic and social rights, as well as civil and political rights like the right to free speech and the right to a fair trial; The following list provides just a few examples of ESCR violations that are already being tried in courts around the world: Forcible evictions; Terminating an employee without cause; Deliberate poisoning of a water supply; Discrimination in access to medical care, work, housing, education etc.; Banning unions; Depriving children of adequate food and water; Failing to provide any primary level education; Failing to provide basic health care facilities; Educational institutions in such poor condition that they are a risk to safety; Housing in such poor condition that it is a risk to safety)
    • found: Moyn, S. Economic rights are human rights, via Foreign policy website, posted Apr. 9, 2018, viewed May 12, 2020(For 40 years, America's human rights policy has focused narrowly on political and civil liberties ... By neglecting social and economic rights and the vast disparities both within and among nations, U.S. policy has exacerbated many of the evils it set out to eradicate)
    • found: Ahmed, D. Social and economic rights, 2017:p. 3 (Socio-economic rights provide protection for the dignity, freedom and well-being of individuals by guaranteeing state-supported entitlements to education, public health care, housing, a living wage, decent working conditions and other social goods) p. 8 (These rights are variously known as 'socio-economic rights' (sometimes 'social, economic and cultural rights') or 'second-generation rights'. In older literature, they were sometimes called 'positive rights', since they promoted a positive view of liberty as 'opportunities for flourishing or well-being'', as contrasted against a negative view of liberty simply as non-interference; After World War II, international treaties and conventions increasingly began to incorporate socio-economic rights, including, most importantly, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR, 1948) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 1966))
    • found: The state of economic and social human rights, 2013:p. 2 (ES rights) p. 3 (entitlements to work, social security, education, and an adequate standard of living, which includes food, clothing, housing, and medical care)
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