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Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises
Building Back Better
9781035306640 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely book explores the key lessons that can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting a forward-looking approach to the socio-economic rights of vulnerable groups. It highlights the ways in which we can better prepare for future times of crises.
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This timely book explores the key lessons that can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting a forward-looking approach to the socio-economic rights of vulnerable groups. It highlights the ways in which we can better prepare for future times of crises.
Contributing authors utilize a human rights-based approach centred on equality, in order to deepen current knowledge and understanding of a range of economic, social and cultural rights issues, including often neglected rights such as the right to science. In addition, they advocate for the (re-)prioritization of the domestic implementation of socio-economic rights protection. They explore how this can be achieved via increased investment in scientific progress and its applications, by regulating private actors, and with increased international cooperation.
Building on important research in the field, this innovative book is an essential resource for human rights scholars and law students looking to broaden their knowledge of key socio-economic challenges post-COVID. Policymakers and human rights organizations seeking to understand the inequalities compounded by the pandemic will also benefit from this prescient book.
Contributing authors utilize a human rights-based approach centred on equality, in order to deepen current knowledge and understanding of a range of economic, social and cultural rights issues, including often neglected rights such as the right to science. In addition, they advocate for the (re-)prioritization of the domestic implementation of socio-economic rights protection. They explore how this can be achieved via increased investment in scientific progress and its applications, by regulating private actors, and with increased international cooperation.
Building on important research in the field, this innovative book is an essential resource for human rights scholars and law students looking to broaden their knowledge of key socio-economic challenges post-COVID. Policymakers and human rights organizations seeking to understand the inequalities compounded by the pandemic will also benefit from this prescient book.
Critical Acclaim
‘An inspirational and forward-looking collection of essays in recognition of the timeless work by one of the leading voices in the field of socio-economic rights, and a potent reminder of the value of human rights to foster resilience in present and future crises.’
– Gerd Oberleitner, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security, University of Graz, Austria
‘This wide-ranging collection captures current human rights challenges and provides important insights on the rights of vulnerable groups who have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. In doing so, it addresses complex issues that defy easy policy solutions and traces a forward trajectory to enhance the protection and promotion of socio-economic rights in a post-pandemic era.’
– Delia Ferri, Maynooth University, Ireland
– Gerd Oberleitner, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security, University of Graz, Austria
‘This wide-ranging collection captures current human rights challenges and provides important insights on the rights of vulnerable groups who have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. In doing so, it addresses complex issues that defy easy policy solutions and traces a forward trajectory to enhance the protection and promotion of socio-economic rights in a post-pandemic era.’
– Delia Ferri, Maynooth University, Ireland
Contents
Contents
Foreword x
Cees Flinterman
Preface xiii
List of abbreviations xv
1 Introduction to Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and
Vulnerability in Times of Crises: Building Back Better 1
Andrea Broderick and Jennifer Sellin
PART I THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS, AND
INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEGAL
PERSPECTIVES, IN TIMES OF CRISES
2 Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: can human
rights embrace solidarity? 13
Dalia Palombo
3 Human rights in times of triage: the discourse of the
United Nations human rights experts during COVID-19 41
Gustavo Arosemena
4 EU social rights in a (post-)pandemic era: peering through
the lens of disability and vulnerability 66
Andrea Broderick and Jasper Krommendijk
PART II SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CRISES
5 The right to health: then, now and in the future 96
Jennifer Sellin and Brigit Toebes
6 The COVID-19 pandemic and access to clean water:
challenges and opportunities 121
Kasim Balarabe
7 Never walk alone: using international cooperation and the
right to science to build back better 145
Remmy Shawa
8 The right to science: another tool to repair gender
inequalities in sciences and research 169
Yvonne Donders
9 Indigenous rights during the pandemic and the concept of
building back better in endemic times 193
Vanessa Tünsmeyer
10 Conclusion 214
Jennifer Sellin and Andrea Broderick
Index 228
Foreword x
Cees Flinterman
Preface xiii
List of abbreviations xv
1 Introduction to Socio-economic Rights, Inequalities and
Vulnerability in Times of Crises: Building Back Better 1
Andrea Broderick and Jennifer Sellin
PART I THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS, AND
INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEGAL
PERSPECTIVES, IN TIMES OF CRISES
2 Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic: can human
rights embrace solidarity? 13
Dalia Palombo
3 Human rights in times of triage: the discourse of the
United Nations human rights experts during COVID-19 41
Gustavo Arosemena
4 EU social rights in a (post-)pandemic era: peering through
the lens of disability and vulnerability 66
Andrea Broderick and Jasper Krommendijk
PART II SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CRISES
5 The right to health: then, now and in the future 96
Jennifer Sellin and Brigit Toebes
6 The COVID-19 pandemic and access to clean water:
challenges and opportunities 121
Kasim Balarabe
7 Never walk alone: using international cooperation and the
right to science to build back better 145
Remmy Shawa
8 The right to science: another tool to repair gender
inequalities in sciences and research 169
Yvonne Donders
9 Indigenous rights during the pandemic and the concept of
building back better in endemic times 193
Vanessa Tünsmeyer
10 Conclusion 214
Jennifer Sellin and Andrea Broderick
Index 228
