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The collective complaints procedure was created in 1995 as an optional quasi-jurisdictional monitoring mechanism specific for the protection of social rights, within the framework of the Council of Europe treaty system of the European Social Charter. In recent years, the importance and use of this procedure has increased considerably, in the context of a number of serious economic and social crises which are impacting negatively on the effective enjoyment of social rights in Europe. This short monograph explores and clarifies the specific features, the potential and limits of the collective complaints procedure, intended as a sui generis instrument for the protection of social rights, in the light of its evolutive application by the European Committee of Social Rights (the monitoring body of the European Social Charter) and its real impact on the state and conditions of social rights in the European countries concerned.

Making the Charter of Fundamental Rights a Living Instrument -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Introduction : The Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Living Instrument: Instructions for Use -- The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Legal Instrument: General Issues -- 1: The EU Charter: Moving from a European Fundamental Rights Ornament to a European Fundamental Rights Order -- 2: The Scope and Efffects of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Case Law of the European Court of Justice -- 3: The Impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights on European Union Policies and Legislation -- 4: The Importance of the European Convention on Human Rights for the Interpretation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union -- The Charter and Social Rights -- 5: Implementation and Protection of Workers' Fundamental Rights. Innovations in the Post-Lisbon Treaty Landscape -- 6: Social Security, Social Assistance and Health Care in the Charter of Fundamental Rights -- 7: The Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups: Children, Elderly People and Persons with Disabilities -- 8: The Principle of Equality and Non-discrimination within the Framework of the EU Charter and Its Potential Application to Social and Solidarity Rights -- 9: The Fundamental Rights Charter of the European Union and the European Social Charter of the Council of Europe: Partners or Rivals? -- Assessing the Legal Impact of the Charter at the National Level -- 10: The Legal Importance and Implementation of the Charter in Austria -- 11: The Legal Importance and Implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in Italy -- 12: The Legal Value and Implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in Poland -- 13: The Legal Importance and Implementation of the Charter in Spain

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Abbreviations of Reviews and Encyclopedia -- From Invisible Citizens to Agents of Change: A Short History of the Struggle for the Recognition of the Rights of Persons with... -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Disability Policy in the United Nations: Before the Dawn -- 2.1 Disabled Persons as Invisible Citizens, 1945-1970 -- 2.2 Disabled Persons as Subjects of Rehabilitation, 1970-1980 -- 2.3 Disabled Persons as Objects of Human Rights, 1980-2000 -- 2.3.1 The World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons -- 2.3.2 ILO Convention 159 -- 2.3.3 Breaking Onto the Agenda of the Commission on Human Rights -- 2.3.4 The Standard Rules -- 2.3.5 The Emergence of the Disability Rights Movement -- 2.4 Disabled Persons as Agents of Human Rights in the New Millennium -- 2.4.1 Calls for a Convention Grow Louder -- 2.4.2 but Old Attitudes Remain a Stumbling Block -- 3 Asserting Rights: Drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- 3.1 The First Meeting: Still No Agreement on the Need for a Convention -- 3.2 The Second Meeting: Securing the Participation of Persons with Disabilities -- 3.3 The Working Group: Drafting Begins -- 3.4 The First Reading of the Draft: Momentum Stalls -- 3.5 The Second Reading: The Ad Hoc Committee Gets Down to Business -- 3.5.1 Legal Capacity -- 3.5.2 Forced Intervention and Institutionalisation -- 3.5.3 Social, Religious and Cultural Values -- 3.5.4 Inclusion versus Segregation -- 3.5.5 Women and Children with Disabilities -- 3.5.6 Conclusion of the Second Reading -- 3.6 The Third Reading: The Chair Issues a Clean Text -- 3.6.1 Legal Capacity -- 3.6.2 Forced Intervention and Institutionalisation -- 3.6.3 Social, Religious and Cultural Values -- 3.6.4 Inclusion versus Segregation.

The safeguard of social rights within the activity of the Security Council / Pia Acconci -- UN Security Council resolutions before the European Court of Human Rights : exploring alternative approaches for the solution of normative conflicts / Maurizio Arcari -- Legal options and models in the design of a sovereign wealth fund and their implications for human rights protection / Fabio Bassan -- The judgment of the Italian constitutional court on state immunity in cases of serious violations of human rights or humanitarian law : a tentative analysis under international law / Pasquale de Sena -- Significant disadvantage and admissibility of applications to the European Court of Human Rights : effects on domestic legal orders / Maria Luisa Padelletti -- Protecting the rights of persons with autism : the role of the European Committee of Social Rights / Giuseppe Palmisano --Subsidiary protection in international and European law / Roberto Giuffrida -- The principle of non-refoulement between international law and European Union law / Agostina Latino -- Close and enduring connections expulsion procedures and the ties between non citizens and host states in the practice of the human rights committee / Antonio Marchesi -- Immigration, citoyenneté européenne et citoyenneté de résidence dans l'Union européenne / Nicoletta Parisi -- Procedural rights of illegal migrants facing expulsion in contemporary times : exploring synergies between the ILC draft articles and the EU returns directive / Emanuela Pistoia --Some cases in the Italian practice relating to illegal migration at sea / Tullio Scovazzi -- The ILC special rapporteur's interim report on the protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts : an important step in the right direction / Michael Bothe -- Deconstructing the responsibility to protect doctrine : looking for a new legal basis / Maria Cleria Ciciriello and Fiammetta Borgia -- Conceptualizing the responsibility to protect : a short contribution / Monica Lugato -- The protection of the environment against harmful effects of peacetime military training activities : the role of international law / Mario Odoni -- La réparation de victimes des violations du droit humanitaire et le droit individuel d'accés à la justice, état de lieu et perspectives d'avenir / Stelios Perrakis -- Two hypothetical prospective extradition cause célèbre : the Snowden and Knox cases / Cherif Bassiouni -- Protecting/promoting the rights of victims in international law : some achievements and ways forward / Soraya Brikci and Cyril Laucci -- Les travaux de la conférence de Londres (26 juin-8 août 1945) sur le Statut du TMI de Nuremberg, une lecture parfois surprenante / Eric David -- La preuve à l'épreuve : trois cas-limites pour le juge international (pénal) / Gabriele della Morte -- Intervention of humanity or the use of force to halt mass-atrocity crimes, the peremptory prohibition of aggression and the interplay between jus Ad bellum, jus in bello and individual criminal responsibility on the crime of agression / David Donat Cattin -- The place of rehabilitation of the offender among the purposes of penalties according to international law / Alessandra Gianelli -- One size fits all? a looming look at human rights in international criminal legal proceedings / Frederik Harhoff -- The special tribunal for Lebanon and the global response to terrorism / Daniel D.N. Nserek -- Nouveau regard sur les sources du droit applicable par la Cour penale internationale / Alain Pellet -- Reflections on international criminal justice twenty years later / Fausto Pocar -- General principles, nullum crimen, and accountability for international crimes / William Schabas -- The functional immunity of state officials from foreign jurisdiction : a critique of the traditional theories / Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi -- The right of peoples to self-determination revisited : did Crimea have the right to secede from the Ukraine? / Fabian Raimondo -- Human health, precautionary principle and product liability in the agro-food chain / Dino Rinoldi