In 1948, the United States firmly supported the inclusion of economic and social rights when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights encompassing these rights. Since then, however, the U.S. has been ambivalent, and at times hostile, to these rights....

The rise of neoliberal policy and practice simultaneous to the growing recognition of economic and social rights presents a puzzle. Can the rights to food, water, health, education, decent work, social security and the benefits of science prevail against market fundamentalism? The edited volume...

Book Review: Global Health, Human Rights and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies, by Audrey R. Chapman, published by Cambridge University Press, 2016.In her latest book, Global Health, Human Rights and the Challenge of Neoliberal Policies, distinguished public health and human rights expert...

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly will adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will guide international development policy and practice for a fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030. The SDGs are critically important as most international development efforts over...

On September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the blueprint for a global partnership for peace, development, and human rights for the period 2016 to 2030. The 2030 agenda follows on the heels of the Millennium Development Goals...

Neoliberal ideology now permeates our laws, policies and programming at the international, national and local levels. The International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the European Union and the United States government, for example, all support trade liberalization, privatization...

Economic inequalities are among the greatest human rights challenges the world faces today due to the past four decades of neoliberal policy dominance. Globally, there are now over 2,000 billionaires, while 3.4 billion people live below the poverty line of US $5.50 per day. Many human rights...

Massachusetts is a national leader in health care, consistently ranking in the top five states in the United States. In 2006, however, only 86% of adults aged 19-64 had health insurance. That year, Governor Romney signed into law An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health...

Over the past two decades, a growing number of human rights scholars and practitioners have focused on defining the content of the economic and social rights guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights treaties. Numerous works now elaborate on the...