The idea that economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights are indispensable for human dignity and freedom first received recognition at the international level in article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By resort to drafting history, textual interpretation and subsequent...

The Handbook focuses on human rights in situations of escalating conflict. Human rights are as multi-dimensional as sources of conflict; both encompass political, legal, economic, social and cultural spheres of life. In many cases, violations of human rights signal the existence of escalation of...