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Another brick in the wall: The student housing crisis in the UK and the ICESCR [PDF]

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
The financialisation of housing has been extensively critiqued by human rights proponents. One of the latest asset classes created by financialisation is student accommodation, reflecting the growing perception of students as a profitable consumer market.
Katie Morris
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Migration Deals Seen through the Lens of the ICESCR

International Journal of Refugee Law, 2023
Abstract Human rights violations in the context of migration deals have received considerable attention, especially when it comes to more frequently explored human rights such as the principle of non-refoulement, the right to life, and the prohibition on torture.
Annick Pijnenburg
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Providing Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuses Committed Abroad: The Extraterritorial Dimension of Home States’ Obligation Under ICESCR

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2023
International human rights law, as a system underpinned by the Westphalian paradigm, heavily relies on the role of territorial States in the protection of human rights.
Wubeshet Tiruneh
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Tracing the Development of the Proportionality Analysis in Relation to Forced Evictions under the ICESCR

Human Rights Law Review, 2022
Abstract Since 2013, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights can examine individual communications under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). This opens up the possibility to interpret Covenant provisions in a thorough manner.
Nils-Hendrik Grohmann
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Institutional Challenges and Political Costs in the US Failure to Ratify the ICESCR [PDF]

Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 2020
On the international stage, the United States has played an active political role in the drafting process of international human rights treaties that shape both how human rights are framed and enforced. However, the United States has politically struggled to implement these international human rights treaties on a domestic level.
Emmanuel Hamidi
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Interpretation of the ICESCR: Between Morality and State Consent

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Discussions concerning the interpretive practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights have so far centred on the question as to the legality of the ‘special’ interpretive techniques and tools which it has developed: Does the special nature of the ICESCR as a human rights treaty justify recourse to interpretive methods that may not ...
Daniel Moeckli
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The protection of labour rights in professional football under the ICESCR

intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), 2019
Verfassungsblog: On Matters ...
Jan Łukomski
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Does Cancel Culture call into Question the Protection of Artists' Rights of Expression? A Study in the Light of the Case-law of the European Court of Human Rights

Athena, 2023
Cancel culture calls into question the relation between artistic productions and values which these productions revoke. While it is widely accepted that art should not bear any constraints which might lead to censorship, it is open the discussion whether
Rosa Manzo
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An Argument for South Africa's Accession to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the light of its importance and implications [PDF]

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2014
The universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all rights have been universally acclaimed since the drafting in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Frans Viljoen, Nicholas Orago
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The Dilemma of Hospitality: Revisiting Indonesia’s Policy on Handling Refugees Under International Law

Jurnal HAM, 2022
Presidential Regulation No. 125 of 2016 is the first regulation that provides a normative framework to manage refugees and asylum seekers in Indonesia.
Ganesh Cintika Putri
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