Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights xviiiBruce Porter, Jackie Dugard, Daniela Ikawa and Lilian ChenwiPART I THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK FOR ESCR1 The international human rights system 2Jackie Dugard 2 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights andthe Optional Protocol 14Daniela Ikawa 3 The African system 28Lilian Chenwi 4 The European system 49Colm O'Cinneide 5 The Inter-American System 68Viviana Krsticevic PART II CONTENT OF THE RIGHTS6 The right to social security 90Magdalena Sepulveda 7 The right to education 114Faranaaz Veriava and Kate Paterson 8 The right to food 138Joanna Bourke-Martignoni 9 The right to health 160Alicia Ely Yamin 10 The right to adequate housing 181Stuart Wilson 11 The human rights to water and sanitation 203Catarina de Albuquerque and Virginia Roaf 12 The right to work and rights at work 227Virginia Bras Gomes PART III CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES13 Unpacking the minimum core and reasonableness standards 251Joie Chowdhury 14 Progressive realization using maximum available resources: theaccountability challenge 276Allison Corkery and Ignacio Saiz 15 Interdependence of human rights 302Bruce Porter 16 Advancing economic and social rights through national human rightsinstitutions: Interdependence of human rights 328Mario Gomez 17 Economic policy and human rights 351Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz 18 The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: opportunity or threat foreconomic, social and cultural rights? 367Kate Donald 19 The climate crisis: litigation and economic, social and cultural rights 387Siri Gloppen and Catalina VallejoIndex

This exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of standards and jurisprudence, it argues for an expansive and inclusive approach to ESCR as human rights."