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Migration crisis, food crisis, economic crisis - the most alarming tendencies in our contemporary world are related to the transnational social question. But what role does transnational law play in this context: Does it exacerbate the asymmetries by shielding the rich and exploiting the poor? Or is the emerging regime of international social human rights a promising candidate for countering the crisis of world society?This book scrutinises both the potentials and the boundaries of de-coupling the notion of "social rights" from the nation-state and of transferring it to the transnational sphere. By drawing on a critical theory of transnational law, it provides in-depth analyses of the different sites where the struggle for social rights is at stake, such as the emerging transnational food regime, the ILO, international environmental law and the accountability of private actors. It reveals enforcement structures, discusses judicial doctrine and relates these aspects to the social and political struggles which surround the transnationalisation of social rights

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El Fondo Monetario Internacional tiene un rol importante en la definición de respuestas económicas y de salud pública frente a la pandemia, incluyendo la concesión de subvenciones y préstamos. Hasta ahora, sus acciones distan mucho de lo que requiere una recuperación basada en derechos. Tanto los gobiernos miembros como el propio FMI tienen una serie de obligaciones en materia de derechos humanos, incluso a nivel internacional, que les exigen apoyar esfuerzos de recuperación equitativos a gran escala. Existe una variedad de medidas que el FMI puede tomar en consonancia con sus obligaciones de derechos humanos, incluida la provisión de recursos para promover el gasto público y la eliminación de condicionalidades que restringen la flexibilidad del gobierno. ; The International Monetary Fund has an important role in defining economic and public health responses to the pandemic, including the provision of grants and loans. So far, its actions fall far short of what a rights-based recovery requires. Both member governments and the IMF itself have a range of human rights obligations, including at the international level, that require them to support large-scale equitable recovery efforts. There are a variety of measures that the IMF can take in line with its human rights obligations, including providing resources to promote public spending and removing conditionalities that restrict government flexibility. ; Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales

The International Monetary Fund has an important role in defining economic and public health responses to the pandemic, including the provision of grants and loans. So far, its actions fall far short of what a rights-based recovery requires. Both member governments and the IMF itself have a range of human rights obligations, including at the international level, that require them to support large-scale equitablerecovery efforts. There are a variety of measures that the IMF can take in line with its human rights obligations, including providing resources to promote public spending and removing conditionalities that restrict government flexibility. ; El Fondo Monetario Internacional tiene un rol importante en la definición de respuestas económicas y de salud pública frente a la pandemia, incluyendo la concesión de subvenciones y préstamos. Hasta ahora, sus acciones distan mucho de lo que requiere una recuperación basada en derechos. Tanto los gobiernos miembros como el propio FMI tienen una serie de obligaciones en materia de derechos humanos, incluso a nivel internacional, que les exigen apoyar esfuerzos de recuperación equitativos a gran escala. Existe una variedad de medidas que el FMI puede tomar en consonancia con sus obligaciones de derechos humanos, incluida la provisión de recursos para promover el gasto público y la eliminación de condicionalidades que restringen la flexibilidad del gobierno.

Social interactions and personal relationships are essential for a minimally good life, and rights to such things – social rights – have been increasingly acknowledged in the literature. The question as to what extent social rights are feasible – and properly qualify as rights – however, remains. Can individuals reliably provide each other with love and friendship after trying, for instance? At first glance, this claim seems counterintuitive. This paper argues, contrary to our pre-theoretic intuitions, that individuals can reliably provide each other with such relationships, rendering even "thick" social rights feasible. This conclusion challenges the assumption that such things cannot be reliably provided after trying, and suggests that a surprisingly wide class of social rights are feasible. Claiming relationships characterised by love or friendship as a matter of justice, therefore, is possible, and our theories of justice should appropriately widen to accommodate this fact where appropriate.

Trust, Courts and Social Rights proposes an innovative legal framework for judicially enforcing social rights that is rooted in public trust in government or 'political trust'. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book draws on theoretical and empirical scholarship on the concept of trust across disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, psychology and political theory. It integrates that scholarship with the relevant public law literature on social rights, fiduciary political theory and judicial review. In doing so, the book uses trust as an analytical lens for social rights law - importing ideas from the scholarship on trust into the social rights literature - and develops a normative argument that contributes to the controversial debate on how courts should enforce social rights. Also global in focus, the book uses cases from courts in Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America to illustrate how the trust-based framework operates in practice