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Is Housing a Human Right? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
A CCH policy brief that examines whether housing should be understood as a human right and argues that the right to adequate housing is recognized as a basic and fundamental human right in many sources of international human rights ...
Patricia Nix-Hodes, Rene Heybach
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Narrative Injustice and the Legal Erasure of Indigeneity: A TWAIL Reframing of the Kashmiri Pandit Case in Postcolonial International Law

open access: yesLaws
This article examines the persistent legal invisibility of the Kashmiri Pandits within international frameworks on indigenous rights and internal displacement.
Shilpi Pandey
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Pandemic Influenza: Ethics, Law, and the Public\u27s Health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Highly pathogenic Influenza (HPAI) has captured the close attention of policy makers who regard pandemic influenza as a national security threat. Although the prevalence is currently very low, recent evidence that the 1918 pandemic was caused by an avian
Berkman, Benjamin E.   +1 more
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A human rights approach to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006
Since the first WHO Model List of Essential Medicines was adopted in 1977, it has become a popular tool among health professionals and Member States.
Seuba Xavier
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A Few Random Thoughts About Socio-Economic Rights in the United States in Light of the 2008 Financial Meltdown [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Socio-economic rights, first articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) sixty years ago, are regaining currency. Legal practitioners around the world, emboldened by emerging constitutional democracies in Eastern Europe and South ...
Banks, Taunya Lovell
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Rights, Not Interests: Resolving Value Clashes under the National Labor Relations Act [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
[Excerpt] This provocative book by the leading historian of the National Labor Relations Board offers a reexamination of the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by applying internationally accepted human rights principles as standards for ...
Gross, James A
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Labor Rights and Labor Standards in International Trade [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
[Excerpt] This Article seeks to […] articulate a defense of enforceable international labor rights and labor standards as part of a trade, investment and development strategy that will benefit whole societies, not just their wealthy sectors.
Compa, Lance A
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Interpretation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Human Rights Bodies in Times of Economic Distress. The case of Greece

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2017
Economic, social and cultural rights have borne the brunt of the recent economic crisis and the austerity measures adopted to counter it. Due to their gradual implementation and the need of positive measures to implement them, they were the first to be ...
Vasiliki Saranti
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