The social rights jurisprudence in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights : shadow and light in international human rights /

"The Inter-American Court of Human Rights continues to build justiciability to determine the social rights of marginalised individuals and groups in the Americas. In this engaging book, Isaac de Paz González unveils the abilities, and the practices of the Inter-American Court's contributio...

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Main Author: Paz González, Isaac de (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018
Series:Elgar studies in human rights.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Constitutional law and international human rights law in the Inter-American system: approaches, tensions and setting the social rights scene
  • 3. Indigenous rights: old issues, new methods? Protecting excluded groups
  • 4. Deprivation of life and marginalisation: trends in children's social rights
  • 5. Jurisprudence on the right to health and education
  • 6. Labour rights: the path to a direct interpretation of Article 26 ACHR
  • 7. Slavery and poverty on trial: light and shadow
  • 8. Conclusions.