Integrated Human Rights in Practice

Edited by Eva Brems, Professor and Ellen Desmet, Postdoctoral Researcher, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium

Contents:

1. Introduction: Rewriting Decisions from a Perspective of Human Rights Integration
Eva Brems

Part I Civil and political rights
2. Questions of Method : the Use of “External Sources” in National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers v the United Kingdom (ECtHR)
Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck, Frédéric Krenc and Olivier Van der Noot

3. Standing Alone or Together: The Human Rights Committee’s Decision in A.P. v Russian Federation
Gerald L. Neuman

4. Use of comparative authority in the drafting of judgments of a new regional human rights court. African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Zongo v Burkina Faso
Magnus Killander

5. Same-Sex Marriage in Polarized Times: Revisiting Joslin v New Zealand (HRC)
Malcolm Langford

Part II Economic and Social Rights
6. Caring, rescuing or punishing? Rewriting R.M.S v Spain (ECtHR) from an integrated approach to the rights of women and children in poverty
Valeska David

7. Re-imagining human rights responsibility: shared responsibility for austerity measures in Federation of employed pensioners of Greece (IKA-ETAM) v Greece (ECSR)
Wouter Vandenhole

Part III Women’s rights
8. Yilmaz-Dogan v The Netherlands (CERD): forum shopping and intersecting grounds of discrimination thirty years later
Rhona Smith

9. Developing the full range of state obligations and integrating intersectionality in a case of involuntary sterilization. CEDAW Committee, 4/2004, AS v Hungary
Eva Brems

10. Objection ladies! Taking IPPF-EN v Italy (ECSR) one step further
Emmanuelle Bribosia, Ivana Isailovic and Isabelle Rorive

Part IV Disability rights
11. Rewriting CLR on behalf of Valentin Campeanu v Romania (ECtHR): actio popularis as ultimum remedium to enhance access to justice of victims with a mental disability
Helena De Vylder

12. Integrating disability and elder rights into the ECHR: rewriting McDonald v the United Kingdom (ECtHR)
Marijke De Pauw and Paul De Hert

13. Another look at Glatzel (ECJ). Of principles and discriminations
Antoine Bailleux and Isabelle Hachez

Part V Indigenous peoples’ rights
14. Taking seriously indigenous peoples’ right of self-determination and the principle of ‘free, prior and informed consent’. Human Rights Committee, 2102/2011, Paadar et al. v Finland
Martin Scheinin

15. Rewriting Social and Economic Rights Action Centre and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights v Nigeria (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights): Pushing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Africa Forward
Stefaan Smis and Derek Inman

16. Moving Human Rights Jurisprudence to a Higher Gear: Rewriting the case of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v Ecuador (Inter-Am. Ct HR)
Lieselot Verdonck and Ellen Desmet

Index