Human rights law proclaims that all persons are the same, and have the same rights. Yet this revolutionary claim, which has overturned political regimes and confounded conventions, has itself been criticised. The criticisms have often come from a non-legal disciplinary background - anthropology,...

This document is a review of a selection of existing guidance and case studies on economic and social rights (ESR) budget analysis. While the initial purpose of the document was to inform the development of the QUB Budget Analysis project’s work, it also serves as an overview of previous work...

This research report for the Changing Aging Partnership examines Northern Ireland's age discrimination laws in a comparative focus. It notes in particular that the Northern Irish approach to age discrimination is increasingly unusual. In particular the report notes that, among the comparators...

There are two major public policy objectives in Northern Ireland. One is the equality agenda designed to deliver the promise in the Good Friday Agreement of equality and parity of esteem for the two main communities and for members of other social and ethnic groups. The other is the Shared...

This paper discusses human rights based budget work. It discusses what is meant by budget work, and identifies key principles and tools used in budget work. It concludes by outlining challenges to such work

Human rights have often been dominated by the contributions of lawyers and courts. Whilst lawyers and courts certainly have major contributions to make in this field, recently there has been more attention devoted to the contribution of other disciplines and other actors. One important example...

Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human...

The island of Ireland is host to two separate jurisdictions, a legacy of the partition of Ireland following the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. The history of the relationship between North and South has not always been a happy one. This chapter reviews the history of this...

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...