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By Eibe H. Riedel
A world specialist Workshop at the correct to Social safety was once held in April 2005 on the German Institute for Human Rights, whose function was once to focus on particular problems with the precise to social safety which might be addressed via the Committee whilst drafting a basic touch upon article nine. the result of this workshop are released during this quantity delivering an perception into the present demanding situations on social protection as a human correct.
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Ibid. ), Core Obligations: Building a Framework for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Intersentia, 2002), 87-114 and Malcolm Langford, Aoife Nolan and Bret Thiele, Litigating Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Legal Practitioners Dossier (Revised) (Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions, 2006). See also discussion of the South African context by Sandra Liebenberg, ‘The right to social assistance: The implications of Grootboom for policy reform in South Africa’ 17 (2002) 2 South African Journal on Human Rights, 232.
Doc. E/1996/22 at 20 (1996). ) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2001) 211-221, at 215. Social Security and Implications for Law, Policy and Practice 35 should be defined, as in previous jurisprudence of the Committee, with respect to an individual’s or family’s budget for covering economic, social and cultural rights. 19 4. Non-discrimination in the guaranteeing of the rights. This requires that the social security system should not only provide objectively unjustifiable differential arrangements directly or indirectly based on prohibited grounds – such as race, sex, marital status, disability, age – but that there is a positive obligation to eradicate such differences over time.
For example, ensuring that policies of international financial institutions do not negatively impact on the right to social security. 3. Fulfil the right to social security of such person’s through international aid and cooperation. 3. Potential Implications The paper now turns to analyse the implications of the right to social security for a number of crucially important issues. These include the coverage of the excluded, the elimination of discrimination and the challenge of ‘market’ approaches.