This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human...

This chapter addresses the ever-deepening relationship between child poverty and child rights. In doing so, it takes as its central focus the best known and most important child rights instrument, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The chapter opens with a justification of why, given...

The Eurozone crisis and the austerity measures introduced in response to it have resulted in significant changes in terms of social rights (or ‘welfare rights') in Ireland. However, the overall reaction of Irish society has been less of a bang than a whimper (albeit it an audible and...

This article will focus on both economic and social rights (ESR) and child poverty. In doing so, it will focus on key developments or gaps in child rights scholarship (CRS) in these areas. The authors’ treatment of these issues together is logical (albeit certainly not inevitable) given the...

Recent years have seen a growing understanding of the relationship between poverty and human rights, an explosion in awareness of the status of children as right-holders, and increasing linkages being made between human rights and child poverty in the development context. Galvanised by mounting...

Upon request by the LIBE Committee, this study looks into the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures which were introduced as a response thereto, to the enjoyment of a set of selected fundamental rights by individuals in Ireland. It also contains recommendations on how to make...

Upon request by the LIBE Committee, this study looks into the impact of the economic crisis and the austerity measures which were introduced as a response thereto, to the enjoyment of a set of selected fundamental rights by individuals in Ireland. It also contains recommendations on how to make...

This article responds to a key event, or rather two key events – the financial and economic crises that kicked off in 2007-2008. It addresses a conundrum that became clear as the impacts of both the crises themselves, and state responses to them developed. That conundrum is this: while there...

This case study identifies the key human rights obligations (based on the International covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, ICESCR) that are relevant to any analysis of funding for mental health services as an aspect of the realization of the right to health. It discusses these...

The child's right to an adequate standard of living under the Convention on the Rights of the Child is very much a work in progress. Despite the wide range of elements captured within the scope of article 27— including food, clothing, housing, state assistance and programmes, and child...