The Minimum Core Obligations of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights : The Rights to Health and Education
Economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR), such as the right to education and the right to health, comprise one of the two principal pillars of the United Nation (UN) human rights framework - the other pillar of which is constituted of civil and...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/289171515569848717/The-minimum-core-obligations-of-economic-social-and-cultural-rights-the-rights-to-health-and-education-research-summary http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29145 |
| Summary: | Economic, social, and cultural rights
(ESCR), such as the right to education and the right to
health, comprise one of the two principal pillars of the
United Nation (UN) human rights framework - the other pillar
of which is constituted of civil and political rights (CPR);
together with the UDHR, these two groups of rights comprise
the international bill of rights. ESCR also overlap
substantially with development activities, in that they
share significant subject matter coverage. Put differently,
development activities now occupy many areas governed by
ESCR. ESCR are also central to conflicts over resource
allocation which increasingly arise in both developed and
developing countries as a result of crises stemming from
climate change, violent conflict, and war and displacement.
In such resource, constrained contexts, ESCR, and minimum
core doctrine (MCD) in particular, provide a potential means
to prioritize resource allocation through the identification
of minimum core obligations (MCOs). |
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