Contextualising The International Covenant On Economic, Social And Cultural Rights

Assessing The Economic Deficit

This work studies the economic foundations of the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights. It is argued that legal principles alone cannot fully actualise this instrument: only sustained inter-disciplinary elaboration of its guarantees can give this instrument full effect.

Socio-economic and civil and political human rights crystallised in international
law at very different stages of their development. Whereas rights such as the right
not to be held in slavery, the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion,
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