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Part of the book series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim (IMGB, volume 26)
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About this book
Article 9 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights on the right to social security is the shortest article in the entire Covenant and for that reason alone highly abstract and vague. A comprehensive analysis of the article 9 is still lacking, not least because it is widely regarded as a Pandora's box better not to be opened.
Experience has shown that the quality of the state reporting procedure is greatly improved once the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights has adopted a General Comment. Thus, it seems very desirable to close this gap. For the reason, an International Expert Workshop on the Right to Social Security was held in April 2005 at the German Institute for Human Rights, whose purpose was to highlight specific issues of the right to social security which should be addressed by the Committee when drafting a General Comment on article 9. The results of this workshop are published in this volume providing an insight into the current challenges on social security as a human right.
Editors and Affiliations
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Lehrstuhl für Deutsches und Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht und Europarecht Schloss Westflügel, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Deutschland
Eibe Riedel
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Security as a Human Right
Book Subtitle: Drafting a General Comment on Article 9 ICESCR - Some Challenges
Editors: Eibe Riedel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31469-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-31467-7Published: 07 November 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31469-1Published: 07 November 2006
Series ISSN: 1617-1497
Series E-ISSN: 2197-859X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 189
Topics: Human Rights, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Medical Law