Economic, social and cultural rights
Research working papers, relevant journals, other research centres and research institutions.
Working papers
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Document Description: The WTO rules do not supersede the responsibility of States to abide by their other treaty obligations with respect to human rights. An improved coordination between the ILO, the UN human rights committees and the WTO would vastly improve the ability of individual governments to utilize human rights instruments in their attempts to adjust their trade of goods and services that are determined to have violated the fundamental human rights and core labour standards of workers.
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Document Description: Interviews reveal labour and other abuses aboard foreign charter vessels fishing in New Zealand's EEZ.
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Document Description: International investment treaties and arbitration have generated serious debate about their potential, and in fact ability, to constrain the policy space and regulatory autonomy States need to protect human rights. This paper holds the view that understanding why investment treaty standards limit sovereign powers with respect to the protection of human rights requires an inquiry beginning from the history of investment protection by treaty and an assessment of the terms of investment treaties in relation to that history.
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The Right to Health: An Introduction. Size: 230.3 kB.
Document Description: The right to the highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental human right that encompasses the right to healthcare and determinants of health. This paper defines the right to health and examines what it means in practice.
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Where Politics Borders Law: The Malawi-Tanzania Boundary Dispute. Size: 1.1 MB.
Document Description: This paper begins by tracing the history of the boundary, before examining the interests of the respective parties and the utility and applicability of the available dispute resolution processes, including the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”). An evaluation of the legal merits of the claims is then carried out before concluding with an analysis of key elements instructing negotiations.
Relevant journals
- Wellesley Human Rights Journal
- Journal of Human Rights Practice
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
- Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies
- Acta Oeconomica Living Standards: Facts and opinions
- Human rights quarterly: The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Adequate Housing: Towards an Appropriate Approach
- Functioning, Capability and the Standard of Living: An Axiomatic Approach
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Human Rights Brief
- New Internationalist
- International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
- Emory International Law Review
- Forced Migration Review
- Human Rights Law Review
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
- A History of the Standard of Living in the United States - Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University: Methods of measuring the standard of living
Other research centres
- Centre for Human Rights Education - Curtin
- Centre For the Study of Human Rights
- Human Rights Research and Education Centre
- Australian Human Rights Institute
- European Human Rights Advocacy Centre
- Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
- The British Institute of Human Rights
- Centre for Research in Social Policy
- Human Rights Commission: Right to housing
- United Nations Human Rights - Adequate housing
- Refugee Case Law Site
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
- Women’s UN Report Network
Other institutions
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Human Rights Committee
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- European Court of Human Rights
- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- UN Women
- The Advocates for Human Rights
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
- Freedom House
- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission