"Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" is a collection of seminal papers
examining legal, conceptual and practical questions regarding the international
legal protection of economic, social and cultural rights. The volume discusses
what human rights obligations economic, social and cultural rights entail for
states and non-state actors; the nature and scope of substantive economic,
social and cultural rights such as education, health, work, water, enjoyment of
the benefits of scientific progress, and cultural rights; as well as the
justiciability of these rights at an international level and at the national
level. The paramount importance of such questions is illustrated, among other
things, by the catastrophic situation of economic, social