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INTERNATIONAL LAW & MANAGEMENT REVIEW VOLUME 11 primarily ensure that they will respect, protect and fulfil the reasonable minimum core of economic and social rights throughout the whole debt cycle. On the other hand, developed states should provide for the reasonable minimum core of economic and social rights even outside their borders. In summation, territorial states must take efforts to provide the reasonable minimum core of economic and social rights within their borders, whereas developed states are additionally obliged to respect outside their borders.

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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

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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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