Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

1 - Introduction: Why Economic and Social Human Rights?

pp 1-18

I - CORE RIGHTS

pp 19-20

2 - The Right to Food: A Global Perspective

pp 21-60

3 - Globalization and the Right to Health

pp 61-85

4 - Demolishing Housing Rights in the Name of Market Fundamentalism: The Dynamics of Displacement in the United States, India, and South Africa

pp 86-116

5 - Implementation of the Human Right to Social Security around the World: A Preliminary Analysis of National Social Protections Laws

pp 117-134

6 - Why Is the Right to Work So Hard to Secure?

pp 135-172

II - NONDISCRIMINATION

pp 173-174

7 - The Rights of the Child to an Adequate Standard of Living: Applying International Standards to the U.S. Case

pp 175-203

8 - Achieving Women's Economic Rights, in Policy and in Practice

pp 204-220

9 - Statelessness and Economic and Social Rights

pp 221-248

III - META

pp 249-250

10 - Establishing a Social and International Order for the Realization of Human Rights

pp 251-270

11 - Beyond a Minimum Threshold: The Right to Social Equality

pp 271-305

12 - The Right to Development from a Human Rights Approach: Conceptual Bases, Legal Framework, and Contemporary Challenges

pp 306-328

13 - Constitutional Environmental Human Rights: A Descriptive Analysis of 142 National Constitutions

pp 329-364

14 - Conclusion: Reflections on the Theory and Practice of Economic and Social Rights

pp 365-388

Index

pp 389-395