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

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.

Introduction -- 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 -- General conclusion.

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