Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions

Jessie Hohmann is Associate Professor and Beth Goldblatt is Professor, both in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

In addressing a long-neglected element of international human rights law ... this ground-breaking volume makes a key contribution to human rights scholarship. The excellent essays advance understanding in multiple scholarly areas, including the theory and implementation of economic and social rights, sustainable development, economic equality and the aims and achievements of the post-WW2 human rights project. This important book will be a must-read for academics, activists and policy-makers working in these areas.

• ForewordSandra Liebenberg (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)1. Introduction: Situating the Right to Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Considering its Interpretations and Applications Jessie Hohmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Beth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)2. Sources for A Nascent Interpretation of the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions: The Travaux Préparatoires and the Work of the CESCRJessie Hohmann (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)3. Cooperating to Continuously ImproveMeghan Campbell (University of Birmingham, UK)4. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions as a Response to PovertyLuke D Graham (Coventry University, UK)5. Is Financial Inclusion a Proxy for Continuously Improving Living Conditions?Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina) and Francisco Cantamutto (National University of the South, Argentina)6. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Progressive Realisation: The Case of the Right to Social Security in CanadaLucie Lamarche (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)7. Understanding Forgotten RightsNaomi Lott (University of Nottingham, UK)8. The Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions and Human Rights of Future Generations – A Circle Impossible to Square?Sigrun I Skogly (Lancaster University, UK)9. New Synergies and Possibilities in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: From Dignified Life to the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living ConditionsIsaac de Paz González (Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico)10. (Dis)Continuous Improvement: Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Lobster and Child WelfareJeffery Hewitt (York University, Canada)11. The Work of Living - Social Reproduction and the Right to the Continuous Improvement of Living ConditionsBeth Goldblatt (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)12. Measure for Measure: The Challenges of Measuring Continuous Improvement and Lessons from the Sustainable Development GoalsSandra Fredman (University of Oxford, UK)13. Entangled Rights and Reproductive Temporality: Legal Form, Continuous Improvement of Living Conditions, and Social ReproductionRuth Fletcher (Queen Mary University of London, UK)