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Informationen zum Autor Aoife Nolan is Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Nottingham. Klappentext This book addresses the interrelationship between economic and financial crises, the responses thereto, and economic and social rights. Zusammenfassung The global financial and economic crises continue to result in austerity-driven cuts to governments' social programs! and an erosion of social and economic rights. This is the first book to focus on the interrelationship between contemporary and past economic and financial crises! the responses thereto! and economic and social rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Aoife Nolan; Part I. Painting the Big (Global) Picture: The Crises and Economic and Social Rights Protection Internationally: 1. Alternatives to austerity: a human rights framework for economic recovery Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona; 2. Late-Neoliberalism: the financialisation of homeownership and the housing rights of the poor Raquel Rolnik and Lidia Rabinovich; 3. The role of global governance in supporting human rights: the global food price crisis and the right to food Olivier de Schutter; Part II. Teasing Out Obligations in a Time of Crisis: 4. Two steps forward, no steps back? Evolving criteria on the prohibition of retrogression in economic, social and cultural rights Aoife Nolan, Nicholas Lusiani and Christian Courtis; 5. Extraterritorial obligations, financial globalisation, and macroeconomic governance Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz; Part III. Exploring Responses to Financial and Economic Crisis: 6. Austerity and the faded dream of a 'social Europe' Colm O'Cinneide; 7. Rationalising the right to health: is Spain's austere response to the economic crisis impermissible under international human rights law Nicholas Lusiani; 8. Tough times and weak review: the 2008 economic meltdown and the enforcement of socio-economic rights in US state courts Helen Hershkoff and Stephen Loffredo; 9. The promise of a minimum core approach: the Colombian model for judicial review of austerity measures David Landau; 10. The impact of the Supreme Court of Argentina on ESCR in the decade following the 2001/2003 crises Ezequiel Nino and Gustavo Maurino; 11. Recession, recovery and service delivery: political and judicial responses to the financial and economic crisis in South Africa Anashri Pillay and Murray Wesson....
