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Social rights


  • Here are entered works on the right to social security, the rights of families, mothers, and children, and the right to physical and mental health.
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    • Social rights--Law and legislation
    • Socio-economic rights
    • Socioeconomic rights
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    • found: Work cat.: 2002004514: Struggles for social rights in Latin America, 2002.
    • found: International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, ©2004.
    • found: 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 (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: 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: Moyn, S. Economic rights are human rights, via Foreign policy website, posted Apr. 9, 2018, viewed May 12, 2020(social and economic rights)
    • 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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    • HM671
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    • Here are entered works on the right to social security, the rights of families, mothers, and children, and the right to physical and mental health.
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    • 2002-03-28: new
    • 2020-07-15: revised
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