The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work adopted in 1998 could not be clearer: “the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining” and “the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation” (ILO, 1998, Para. 2 (a) and (d)) are...

Workplace laws and policies on the reconciliation of work and family responsibilities have important human rights consequences. One such impact concerns gender equality, since most studies indicate that women assume a significantly larger share of family obligations. Beyond the particularly...

Economic well-being constitutes an essential prerequisite to the effective enjoyment of civil, political, social, and cultural rights. So intricately interwoven are economic well-being and human rights, that reliance on a discourse of economic rights becomes, at once, both necessary and...