Integrating Human Rights? Socio-Economic Rights and Budget Analysis


Autoria(s): Harvey, Colin; Rooney, Eoin
Data(s)

15/04/2010

Resumo

This article explores an opportunity for mutual learning between the fields of human rights law and economic analysis. Specifically it considers how economic techniques might be used to appraise public expenditure in line with international obligations arising from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966 (ICESCR). Our argument is that such tools do have the potential to contribute to this aim, but that embedding them within government budget processes through “human rights mainstreaming” may prove problematic in practice. We therefore suggest, as part of a broader strategy which includes judicial enforcement, that mainstreaming initiatives and budget analysis can be useful as complementary tools for the full realisation of all human rights.

Identificador

http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/integrating-human-rights-socioeconomic-rights-and-budget-analysis(fe3d7869-d166-48ec-9846-6a688fb76e7e).html

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Fonte

Harvey , C & Rooney , E 2010 , ' Integrating Human Rights? Socio-Economic Rights and Budget Analysis ' European Human Rights Law Review , vol 14 , no. null , pp. 266-279 .

Tipo

article