Constituting Economic and Social Rights

What’s Law got to do with Good Science?

“…Equally, most international human rights scholars who engage with questions of reproduction do so not by reference to science and technology, but rather via a public health orientation, with a focus on securing safe motherhood, ending forced sterilisation and guaranteeing access to modern (not high-tech) forms of contraception (Murphy, 2017). Sociological ways of seeing haven't had much traction either, though the recent shift in international human rights law from a singular focus on advocacy and standard-setting, and the rising interest in economic and social rights (Saul, Kinley and Mowbray, 2014;Young, 2012), do seem to be producing opportunities for human rights law scholars to be less normativelyinclined (Erdman, 2015).…”

Realizing Social Rights: The Material Impacts of Constitutional Entrenchment

“…", "DOI":"10.1093/ hrlr/ngv025", "ISSN":"1461-7781, 1744-1021", "shortTitle":"Right to Health Litigation in Brazil", "journalAbbreviation":"Human Rights Law Review", "language":" en", "author":[{"family":"Wang", "given":"Daniel Wei L. "}], "issued":{"date-parts" : [["2015",12,1]]}}}], "schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} . It provides detailed descriptions of litigation and advocacy processes, contextualizes the application of social rights, and offers numerous insights about whether and when they may be effective Brinks, 2008;Langford, 2008;Young, 2012;King, 2012;Rodríguez Garavito;Franco, 2015). What have only recently begun to emerge, however, are attempts to examine the efficacy of these guarantees in a systematic and comparative manner.…”

Rural Water Supply in Colombia

“…The Colombian Constitution states that sanitation should be provided efficiently and universally throughout the entire country (Young, 2012). This suggests that rural as well as urban areas should have effective, hygienic sanitation systems in place.…”