Recent years have seen a growing understanding of the relationship between poverty and human rights, an explosion in awareness of the status of children as right-holders, and increasing linkages being made between human rights and child poverty in the development context. Galvanised by mounting...

This article will focus on both economic and social rights (ESR) and child poverty. In doing so, it will focus on key developments or gaps in child rights scholarship (CRS) in these areas. The authors’ treatment of these issues together is logical (albeit certainly not inevitable) given the...

This case study identifies the key human rights obligations (based on the International covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, ICESCR) that are relevant to any analysis of funding for mental health services as an aspect of the realization of the right to health. It discusses these...

This document identifies the human rights issues that are relevant to the development of an economic and social rights-based budget analysis methodology. It details the various analytical frameworks that have been employed by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and others to...

This research examines the funding of social housing in Northern Ireland from a human rights perspective. In doing so, it assesses selected aspects of the social housing budget against the budget-specific obligations stemming from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...

Introduction / Aoife Nolan -- Alternatives to austerity : a human rights framework for economic recovery / Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona -- Late-neoliberalism : the financialisation of homeownership and the housing rights of the poor / Raquel Rolnik & Lidia Rabinovich -- The role of global...

This article responds to a key event, or rather two key events – the financial and economic crises that kicked off in 2007-2008. It addresses a conundrum that became clear as the impacts of both the crises themselves, and state responses to them developed. That conundrum is this: while there...

Privatisation is an ever-more dominant model of economic and social rights (ESR) realisation. Contracting out, public-private partnerships and other approaches by which the private sector takes responsibility for, or supports the state in, delivering ESR-related goods and services are being...

This chapter addresses the ever-deepening relationship between child poverty and child rights. In doing so, it takes as its central focus the best known and most important child rights instrument, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The chapter opens with a justification of why, given...

This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human...