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1.Foundations --Public finance, maximum available resources and human rights /Diane Elson, Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz --Putting ESR-based budget analysis into practice: addressing the conceptual challenges /Aoife Nolan --Let them eat cake: socio-economic rights in an age of austerity /Paul O'Connell --Resourcing rights: combating tax injustice from a human rights perspective /Ignacio Saiz --2.Governance --Recovering the history of human rights: public finances and human rights /Rory O'Connell --Better on the margins? A critique of mainstreaming economic and social rights /Eoin Rooney and Colin Harvey --3.Group-specific work --Budget for children /Enakshi Ganguly Thukral --Equality proofing the budget: lessons from the experiences of gender budgeting? /Sheila Quinn --4.Analysis in action --Right to adequate housing: a case study of the social housing budget in Northern Ireland /Eoin Rooney and Mira Dutschke --Assessing the impact of the public spending cuts: taking human rights and equality seriously /James Harrison and Mary-Ann Stephenson.

Human rights based budget analysis projects have emerged at a time when the United Nations has asserted the indivisibility of all human rights and attention is increasingly focused on the role of non-judicial bodies in promoting and protecting human rights. This book seeks to develop the human rights framework for such budget analyses, by exploring the international law obligations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) in relation to budgetary processes. The book outlines international experiences and comparative practice in relation to economic and soc