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...

The Eurozone crisis and the austerity measures introduced in response to it have resulted in significant changes in terms of social rights (or ‘welfare rights') in Ireland. However, the overall reaction of Irish society has been less of a bang than a whimper (albeit it an audible and...

The child's right to an adequate standard of living under the Convention on the Rights of the Child is very much a work in progress. Despite the wide range of elements captured within the scope of article 27— including food, clothing, housing, state assistance and programmes, and child...

This paper focuses on economic and social rights (ESR)-based budget analysis, a subject and a methodology of increasing interest to those concerned with monitoring the implementation of human rights, and of ESR in particular. It argues that the increased focus on, and employment of, rights-based...

This paper defends a role for the courts in ensuring the vindication of children’s socio-economic rights where the elected branches of government have not done so. In it, I argue that it is legitimate for the courts to act assertively in order to ensure that children’s socio-economic rights...

Recent years have seen an explosion in methodologies for monitoring children’s economic and social rights (ESR). Key examples include the development of indicators, benchmarks, child rights-based budget analysis and child rights impact assessments. The Committee on the Rights of the Child has...

This book is concerned with children's economic and social rights (sometimes referred to simply as children's social rights). Despite increased academic interest in both children's rights and socio-economic rights over the last two decades, children's social and economic rights remain a...

The global financial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. These rights were ignored by economic policy makers prior to the financial and economic crisis and continue to be disregarded in the current ‘age of austerity’. This is the first book to...

Increasing numbers of academics and practitioners are employing the language of economic and social rights (ESR) when conceptualising the aims, scope and implementation mechanisms of transitional justice. Their contributions have contributed to an evolving debate on the boundaries of...

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...