The implementation of economic, social and cultural rights is a most pressing item on the international human rights agenda. Millions of people go without food, health, shelter, education, work, social security, not because the resources are unavailable to provide for these basic human rights, but because societies are badly governed, or democracy is lacking, or the rule of law is absent, or si…
The present book contains the revised papers that were presented at a seminar organised by the Centre for HUman Rights of Maastricht University in November 2005. It brought together researchers from regions all over the world who were asked to discuss good practices of social and economics rights protection in their contry, but also legal and non-legal obstacles that still hinder an effective e…