
Human Rights as Indivisible Rights : The Protection of Socio-Economic Demands under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Title:
Human Rights as Indivisible Rights : The Protection of Socio-Economic Demands under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Author:
Koch, I E.
ISBN:
9789004180680
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Series:
International Studies in Human Rights, 101 ; v.101
International Studies in Human Rights, 101
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Background to and Purpose of the Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Classical Perception of Civil-Political Rights and Socio-Economic Rights -- 3 Indivisibility as Protection of Socio-Economic Demands Under the ECHR -- Chapter 2. Typological and Terminological Considerations -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 Trichotomies or Waves of Duties? -- 2.1 The Tripartite Typology -- 2.2 Critical Considerations on the Tripartite Typology -- 2.3 The Applicability of the Tripartite Typology to All Human Rights -- 2.4 The Terminology of the ECtHR -- 2.5 Successive Waves of Duties? -- Chapter 3. Considerations on Intertextuality and Permeability -- 1 Introductory Remarks -- 2 The Intertextuality of the Two Sets of Rights -- 3 The Permeability of Human Rights Norms -- 4 A Possible Theory for Understanding the Notion of Indivisibility and the Integrated Approach -- Chapter 4. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- 1 Initial Remarks -- 2 The Hermeneutic Circle -- 3 About Pre-Understanding -- 4 The Horizontal Structure of the Hermeneutic Circle -- 5 The Vertical Structure of the Hermeneutic Circle -- 6 The Added Value of Hermeneutics -- 7 Methodological Considerations -- Chapter 5. The Right to Health Under the ECHR -- 1 Health as a Cross-Cutting Issue -- 2 The Right to Health Under the ECHR -- 2.1 Relevant Provisions -- 2.2 A General 'Positive Right' to Treatment and Care -- 2.3 Environmental Health - Striking a Fair Balance -- 2.4 Deprivation of Liberty for Purposes of Treatment - Rights and Duties -- 2.4.1 A Right to Compulsory Treatment? -- 2.4.2 The Choice Between Article 5 (1)(a) and Article 5 (1)(e) -- 2.4.3 Forward-Looking Observations on Deprivation of Liberty for Purposes of Treatment -- 2.5 Health Conditions in Prisons -- 2.5.1 General Prison Conditions.
2.5.2 Prisoners with Special Needs -- 2.6 Protection of Neglected Children -- 2.7 Information, Professional Secrecy and Freedom of Expression in Health Issues -- 3 Future Prospects -- Chapter 6. The Right to Housing Under the ECHR -- 1 Housing as a Cross Cutting Issue -- 2 The Relevant Provisions -- 3 A State Obligation to Provide for (lawful) Housing? -- 4 The Right to Housing and the Principle of Non-Discrimination -- 5 Protection of Housing Rights by Means of Restriction of Other's Rights -- 5.1 Initial Remarks -- 5.2 Case Law Under Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 -- 5.3 Margin of Appreciation - Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 -- 5.4 The Character of the Derivative Protection Under Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 -- 6 Demolition of Homes -- 7 Eviction and Illegal Occupation of Homes -- 7.1 Examples from Cyprus -- 7.2 Examples from Croatia -- 7.3 Margin of Appreciation - Article 8 and Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 -- 8 Future Prospects -- Chapter 7. The Right to Education Under the ECHR -- 1 Education as a Cross-Cutting Issue -- 2 The Right to Education in Three Generations -- 3 The Right to Education Under the ECHR -- 3.1 Relevant Provisions -- 3.2 Positive Rights to Primary Education Under Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 -- 3.2.1 Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 and Other Provisions on the Right to Education -- 3.2.2 The Travaux Préparatoire to Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 -- 3.2.3 Case Law Under Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 -- 3.2.4 Compulsory Education Free of Charge -- 3.2.5 Case Law Under Article 5 (1) (e) - Rights and Duties -- 4 Future Prospects -- Chapter 8. The Right to Social Cash Benefits Under the ECHR -- 1 The Right to Social Cash Benefi ts as a Cross-Cutting Issue -- 2 The Relevant Provisions -- 3 A Minimum Core Right to Social Cash Benefi ts? -- 4 Social Cash Benefits as Rights Protected Under Article 6.
5 Social Cash Benefits Under Article 8 -- 6 Social Cash Benefits as Property Rights -- 6.1 Initial Remarks -- 6.2 Social Cash Benefi ts and the Issue of Discrimination -- 6.3 Social Cash Benefits as Property Rights - Further Reflections -- 7 Future Prospects -- Chapter 9. Work-Related Rights Under the ECHR -- 1 Work-Related Rights as Cross-Cutting Issues -- 2 The Relevant Provisions -- 3 Access to Work? -- 4 Protection Against Dismissal -- 4.1 Initial Remarks -- 4.2 Homosexuality and the Right to Work -- 4.3 Freedom of Speech, Association, Religion and the Right to Work -- 5 The Rights of the Self-Employed -- 6 Claims for Salary -- 7 Occupational Issues and the Application of Article 6 -- 8 'Negative' Freedom of Association and the Right to Work -- 9 A Right to Collective Bargaining Under the ECHR? -- 10 A Right to Collective Action Under the ECHR? -- 11 Other Issues Relating to Freedom of Association -- 12 Future Prospects -- Chapter 10. Socio-Economic Demands as Justiciable Rights - The Issue of Power Balance -- 1 Initial Remarks -- 2 Division of (democratic) Powers at the Domestic Level -- 2.1 Initial Remarks -- 2.2 Judicial Review of the Application of Legal Provisions Worded Precisely and as Individual Rights -- 2.3 Judicial Review of the Application of Vague Legal Standards -- 2.4 Judicial Review of the Human Rights Compliance of Statutory Provisions -- 2.4.1 Initial Remarks -- 2.4.2 A Representative Basis for Judicial Review -- 2.4.3 Institutional Dialogue as Legitimising Judicial Review -- 2.4.4 Democracy and Human Rights - A Substantial Concept of Democracy -- 3 The ECHR as the Custodian of Substantial Democracy -- 4 Justiciable Socio-Economic Elements of Human Rights -- 4.1 Introductory Remarks -- 4.2 From 'Rechtsstaat' Paradigm to Welfare State Paradigm -- 4.3 Identifi cation of Possible Justiciable Socio-Economic Elements.
Chapter 11. The Relation between the ECHR and the ESC/RESC -- 1 Initial Remarks -- 2 The ECSR's Style of Interpretation -- 3 Overlapping Protection between the ECHR and the ESC/RESC -- 3.1 Introductory Remarks -- 3.2 Work-Related Rights -- 3.3 The Right to Education -- 4 Civil-Political Dominance in Socio-Economic Rights -- 4.1 Initial Remarks -- 4.2 Corporal Punishment of Children -- 4.3 Conscientious Objectors and Forced Labour -- 5 Closing Remarks -- Chapter 12. Concluding Forward-looking Observations -- 1 Initial Remarks -- 2 Returning to the Issue about the Added Value of Hermeneutics -- 3 A Protocol to the ECHR Concerning Socio-Economic Rights - Historical Remarks -- 4 Considerations on a Protocol to the ECHR about Socio-Economic Rights -- 5 Final Remarks -- European Court of Human Rights: List of Judgments -- European Court of Human Rights: List of Admissibility Decisions -- The European Committee on Social Rights: List of Decisions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The book analyses the legal nation of human rights as indivisible, interrelated and interdependent rights by analysing case law from the European Court of Human Rights. The book concludes that the nation of human rights as indivisible right as a legal content and that aspects of several socio-economic rights are in fact protected by the Convention.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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