The island of Ireland is host to two separate jurisdictions, a legacy of the partition of Ireland following the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. The history of the relationship between North and South has not always been a happy one. This chapter reviews the history of this...

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

Introduction / Aoife Nolan -- Alternatives to austerity : a human rights framework for economic recovery / Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona -- Late-neoliberalism : the financialisation of homeownership and the housing rights of the poor / Raquel Rolnik & Lidia Rabinovich -- The role of global...

Privatisation is an ever-more dominant model of economic and social rights (ESR) realisation. Contracting out, public-private partnerships and other approaches by which the private sector takes responsibility for, or supports the state in, delivering ESR-related goods and services are being...

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...

The global financial and economic crises have had a devastating impact on economic and social rights. These rights were ignored by economic policy makers prior to the financial and economic crisis and continue to be disregarded in the current ‘age of austerity’. This is the first book to...