The threat to human rights posed by non-state actors is of increasing concern. The author
addresses the international obligations of belligerents, national liberation movements and …

The present Commentary was written by the listed authors in their individual capacity as
members of the Drafting Group who facilitated the elaboration of the Maastricht Principles on …

The dramatic rise in the number of international courts and tribunals and the expansion of
their legal powers has been one of the most significant developments in international law of …

Labour rights have been neglected in human rights law. Classified usually as social rights,
they have been excluded from key human rights conventions. Recently, the European Court …

Constitutions around the world have come to protect a growing number of social rights. This
constitutionalization of social rights has generally been met with approval from academics …

NEVER BEFORE HAS there been such a level of acceptance that children are socio-
economic rights-bearers. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) provides …

Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in the scale and importance of economic,
social, and cultural rights (ESC rights), culminating in the adoption of the Optional Protocol to …

Society is largely blind-often willfully blind-to the ongoing violations of international human
rights law when it comes to the treatment of persons with mental disabilities. Despite a …

Human Rights Law Review 11: 2 (2011), 343^ 361 substantial addition to that body's
existing jurisprudence on housing rights3 and Roma rights, 4 it contains a number of new …

Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and groups according to their
physical and non-physical differences, such as sex, gender, disability and race. This …