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...

This document identifies the human rights issues that are relevant to the development of an economic and social rights-based budget analysis methodology. It details the various analytical frameworks that have been employed by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and others to...

This research examines the funding of social housing in Northern Ireland from a human rights perspective. In doing so, it assesses selected aspects of the social housing budget against the budget-specific obligations stemming from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...

This document is a review of a selection of existing guidance and case studies on economic and social rights (ESR) budget analysis. While the initial purpose of the document was to inform the development of the QUB Budget Analysis project’s work, it also serves as an overview of previous work...

Article 2(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights sets out State parties' key obligations with regard to the implementation of the rights in the Covenant. According to that provision, States are under a duty to take steps to the maximum of their available...

The Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland was a central focus for contested conversations in the Brexit negotiations. Many of the tensions at the heart of the Brexit project are evident in its consequences for the island of Ireland. The aim is to examine the compromise that emerged. The...

This paper discusses human rights based budget work. It discusses what is meant by budget work, and identifies key principles and tools used in budget work. It concludes by outlining challenges to such work

Human rights have often been dominated by the contributions of lawyers and courts. Whilst lawyers and courts certainly have major contributions to make in this field, recently there has been more attention devoted to the contribution of other disciplines and other actors. One important example...

Submission to the Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Summary: The Good Friday or Belfast Agreement 1998 envisaged reforms that would contribute to wider social and economic transformation, among these a Bill of Rights. Many of these reforms have not been delivered and...