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Abstract

For decades, the global human rights community has seen human rights as a matter of law, mostly international law. Economic, social and cultural rights, however, are meant to be progressively realized making use of all available resources. The violations approach and the work on their justiciability do not address the structural factors that constrain the enjoyment of these rights. Human rights are about policy and politics as much as about law. There is room for human rights advocacy outside and beyond the limits of the law.

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Author(s): Casla K

Editor(s): Lettinga, D.; van Troost, L.

Publication type: Book Chapter

Publication status: Published

Book Title: Can human rights bring social justice?

Year: 2015

Pages: 33-38

Print publication date: 22/09/2015

Acceptance date: 01/06/2015

Publisher: Amnesty International Netherlands

URL: https://www.amnesty.nl/content/uploads/2015/10/can_human_rights_bring_social_justice.pdf

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9789064633706

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