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State Obligations Concerning Socio-Economic Rights in Times of the European Financial Crisis

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Authors: Jernej Letnar Cernic

Rights Involved

Right to adequate housing
Right to education
Right to social security
Rights of persons with disabilities
Rights of the child

Issue

Extraterritorial obligations
Minimum core obligations
Resource expenditure
Transparency

Year: 2015

Summary: Examines relationship between the economic crisis and socio-economic rights form teh perspective of a state's human rights obligation. Discusses how to adequately secure socio-economic rights during times of economic crisis. Also examines the nature, value, and scope of state obligations regarding ESCR. Argues that territorial states have obligations to respect ESCR, even during severe economic crises; and that developed states have extraterritorial obligations to ensure reasonable minimum socio-economic standards are being developed in other, less developed, nations.

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