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"This edited collection addresses some of the most important challenges in contemporary human rights law and practice. Its central theme is the linkage between public finance, particularly budget decisions, and the realisation (or not) of economic and social rights. While much academic and political debate on economic and social rights implementation has focused on the role of the courts, this work places the spotlight squarely on those organs of government that have the primary responsibility and the greatest capacity for giving effect to such rights: namely, the elected branches of government. The major actors considered in this book are politicians, public servants and civil society, with their role in realising economic and social rights the work's key focus. The book thus makes a crucial contribution to remedying the current imbalance in attention paid by economic and social rights scholars to the legislature and executive vis-a-vis the judiciary

The history of the special procedures : a learning-by-doing approach to human rights implementation / Elvira Dominguez-Redondo -- Special procedures : independence and impartiality / Jane Connors -- Picking and choosing? Country visits by thematic special procedures / Felice D. Gaer -- The UN special procedures system : the role of the coordination committee of special procedures / Najat Maala M'jid -- Strengthening cooperation : the key to unlocking the potential of the special procedures / Mare Limon -- Coping mechanisms for state non-cooperation / Ahmed Shaheed and Rose Parris Richter -- Doing it all and doing it well? A mandate's challenges in terms of cooperation, fundraising and maintaining independence / Inga T. Winkler and Catarina de Albuquerque -- Working out a working group : a view from a former working group member / Olivier de Frouville -- Special procedures in the digital age / Ella McPherson and Thomas Probert -- Principle, politics and practice : the role of UN special rapporteurs on the right to adequate housing in the development of the right to housing in International law / Jessie Hohmann -- Life as a UN special rapporteur : the experience of the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia / Surya P. Subedi -- Business and human rights in the United nations special procedures system / Daria Davitti -- The chalenge of non-state actors : the experience of the UN special rapporteur on the rights to the highest attainable standard of health (2002-08) / Paul Hunt -- The UN special rapporteur on torture in the developing architecture of UN torture protection / Malcolm Evans -- The African state and speical procedures : agency, leverage and legitimacy / Jonathan Fisher and Danielle Beswick -- Supporting of resisting? the relationship between Global North States and special procedures / Rosa Freedman and Franc̜ois Crépeau -- Ending resprisals : the role and responsibilities of the special procedures of the UN human rights council / Phil Lynch