Abstract
Poverty is not only an economic and sociopolitical problem of individual States and societies, but also a global challenge with which the whole community of States is confronted. This book focuses particularly on the role which international human rights law has to take in coping with this challenge. The governments of developing and newly industrializing countries have to do everything in their power to enable their population to conduct a life in accordance with respect for basic social human rights. But also the governments of the developed countries are legally obliged to respect these rights in the design of their political programs (economic policy, foreign affairs, development aid).
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United Nations 2014, p. 7.
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Other agreements ensuring social human rights had already been adopted before 1966 (see infra Sect. 2.2). Nevertheless, these agreements have not received global support, whereas today the ICESCR is binding for almost all States.
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This will be discussed later in more detail, cf. Sect 3.3.
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In some parts this study is based on previous work that has been published (in German) in Kaltenborn 2014. I would like to thank Lisa Gow, LLB University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), and Annika Engelbert, PhD candidate at the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE) of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, very much for their helpful comments on the English version of this text.
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Kaltenborn, M. (2015). Introduction: Social Rights as a Legal Framework for International Development Strategies. In: Social Rights and International Development. SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45352-0_1
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