Research Handbook on International Law and Social Rights

Edited by Christina Binder, Jane A. Hofbauer, Department for Public Law and International Law, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany, Flávia Piovesan, Faculty of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil and Amaya Úbeda de Torres, Senior Lawyer, Council of Europe

• ContentsIntroduction: international law and social rights – six years on, the challenges havegrown xxiChristina Binder and Jane A Hofbauer (on behalf of the editors)PART I GENERAL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND SOCIAL RIGHTS1 Social rights in international law – categorization versus indivisibility 2Manfred Nowak2 The nature of social rights as obligations of international law – resourceavailability, progressive realization and the obligations to respect, protect,fulfil 19Veronika Bílková3 Justiciability and social rights 44Amaya Úbeda de Torres4 The extraterritorial application of social rights 59Elif AskinPART II THE PROTECTION OF SOCIAL RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONALHUMAN RIGHTS LAWSection A Universal Protection5 Social rights protection under the ICESCR and its Optional Protocol – therole of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 88Zdzisław (Dzidek) Kędzia6 Social rights protection through UN human rights treaties beyond theICESCR 116Thomas KleinleinSection B Regional Protection7 Social rights in the African system for the protection and promotion ofhuman and peoples’ rights 135Frans Viljoen8 The complex emergence of social rights in Asia: are they for developmentor for claiming? 167Mike Hayes9 The European Social Charter 189Karin Lukas10 Social rights in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights 205Christina Binder11 The protection of social rights by the Inter-American Commission onHuman Rights 224Flávia Piovesan, Mariela Morales Antoniazzi and Julia Cortez da Cunha Cruz12 Social rights in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of HumanRights 243Eduardo Ferrer Mac-GregorSection C Social Rights as a Tool to Fight Inequality and to Protect and Ensure Diversity13 The social rights of Indigenous peoples 273Manuel Góngora-Mera14 Social rights of minorities 292Aristoteles Constantinides15 Engendering social rights: women’s rights under the InternationalCovenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights through the lens ofintersectionality and times of crises 315Andrea Broderickand Nozizwe Dube16 Migrants and social rights 338Natalie Sedacca17 LGBTIQ+ persons and social rights 356Andreas R Ziegler, Raphaël Bagi and Leo Barnard18 Enforcing workers’ rights against state and corporate actors ininternational law 372Nicolas Bueno and Ingrid LandauPART III THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF SOCIAL RIGHTS19 The role of domestic actors in the implementation and enforcement ofsocial rights 397Andreas Th Müller20 The role of civil society organizations in the protection of social rights 419Daniela Ikawa21 The proceduralization of social rights: access to information, justice andremedies 434Yota Negishi22 Guarantees of non-repetition and structural change: a transformativeremedy for social rights? 450Philipp Janig23 Cities and social rights: exploring the intersection 467Maša Kovič DinePART IV CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL RIGHTS24 Social rights, public values, and private code: crafting judicial andregulatory checks on privatized welfare algorithms 487René Urueña25 Artificial intelligence and social rights 506Irène Couzigou26 Social rights in armed conflict situations 520Amrei Müller27 Breaking with the economic growth paradigm – planetary boundaries andthe future of social rights 544Jane A Hofbauer28 Climate change and social rights 563Markus P BehamPART V SOCIAL RIGHTS IN PERSPECTIVE: INTERLINKAGES WITHOTHER INTERNATIONAL REGIMES29 Three narratives on international trade law and social rights 582Navina Hasper and Holger Hestermeyer30 Financial institutions and social rights: it’s complicated 598Matthias Goldmann31 International labour law and social rights – the Inter-American Court ofHuman Rights case law concerning workers’ rights 625Julieta Lobato

‘This Research Handbook represents a huge achievement in the endeavor to secure to social rights the place they deserve in international human rights law and practice, despite the intellectual difficulties and political opposition standing in the way of such recognition.