Bücher der Reihe Globalization and Human Rights

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have been the subject of debate over their content, non-binding nature, and capacity to improve human rights conditions in business. This book considers their issues through the eyes of scholars and practitioners from different parts of the world - including John Ruggie.

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have been the subject of debate over their content, non-binding nature, and capacity to improve human rights conditions in business. This book considers their issues through the eyes of scholars and practitioners from different parts of the world - including John Ruggie.

Students, academics and practitioners in law and other disciplines will learn from the world's leading experts on economic and social rights - including rights to education, health care, food and housing. The examination of constitutions, courts and international mechanisms signal a transformation in debates about human rights, constitutions, democracy and development.

Scholars, practitioners, activists and students in human rights, international development, social policy, socio-legal studies, law, sociology and critical economics will find this to be an accessible book on the potential of human rights to challenge economic inequalities and their adverse impacts on human wellbeing.

Economic inequalities are among the greatest human rights challenges the world faces today due to the past four decades of neoliberal policy dominance. Globally, there are now over 2,000 billionaires, while 3.4 billion people live below the poverty line of US $5.50 per day. Many human rights scholars and practitioners read these statistics with alarm, asking what impact such extreme inequalities have on realizing human rights and what role, if any, should human rights have in challenging them? This edited volume examines these questions from multiple disciplinary perspectives, seeking to uncover the relationships between human rights and economic inequalities, and the barriers and pathways to greater economic equality and full enjoyment of human rights for all. The volume is a unique contribution to the emerging literature on human rights and economic inequality, as it is interdisciplinary, global in reach and extends to several under-researched areas in the field.