Economic, social, and cultural rights in armed conflict /

Giacca, Gilles.

Economic, social, and cultural rights in armed conflict / Gilles Giacca. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (XXI, 297 pages) - Oxford monographs in international law . - Oxford monographs in international law. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.

Treaty obligations of states for economic, social, and cultural rights : theory and assessment -- Limitations on conventional economic, social, and cultural rights on security grounds -- Territorial scope of application of treaty-based economic, social, and cultural rights -- Economic, social, and cultural rights and international humanitarian law -- Human rights obligations of armed non-state actors -- Introduction -- General conclusion.

This book addresses the international legal obligation to protect economic, social, and cultural human rights in times of armed conflict and other situations of armed violence. These rights provide guarantees to individuals of their fundamental rights to work, to an adequate standard of living (food, water, housing), to education, and to health.

9780191787010 0191787019 9780198717447 019871744X 9780191026904 0191026905


Humanitarian law.
Human rights.
Human rights.
Humanitarian law.
LAW / International


Electronic books.

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