Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision

Marlies Hesselman is lecturer in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and concluding Ph.D. research on universal access to modern energy services. Antenor Hallo de Wolf is Assistant Professor of International Law and Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and a former visiting fellow of the Human Rights Implementation Centre at the University of Bristol, UK. Brigit Toebes is an Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

1. Common Challenges for Socio-Economic Human Rights and Essential Public Services Provision Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf and Brigit Toebes Part I: Socio-Economic Human Rights for Essential Public Services Provision: Trends and Issues 2. Reconciling International Obligations and Local Realities: Provision of Pain Control Medication in Resource Constrained Countries—Experiences from Uganda Marie Elske C Gispen 3. The Right to Health and TRIPS: Access to Essential Medicines and Patenting in India Jennifer Sellin 4. Access to Water Services: the World Bank and Water Rights Mónika Ambrus 5. Is Cutting People's Electricity Off 'Cut Off' from the Ratione Materiae Jurisdiction of the CJEU and the ECtHR? Panos Merkouris 6. Disaster Management in EU Law: Solidarity Among Individuals and Among States Mauro Gatti Part II: The Role of Private Actors in Essential Public Services Provision 7. EU Public Service Obligations and their Potential for Human Rights Protection Hetty ten Oever and Iris Houben 8. Private Providers of Essential Public Services and de jure Responsibility for Human Rights Lottie Lane 9. Pharmaceutical Companies and Intellectual Property Protection: Human Rights Actors or Recipients? Shamiso Philomina Zinzombe 10. The Responsibility of Business Enterprises to Restore Access to Essential Public Service at Resettlement Sites Lidewij van der Ploeg, Frank Vanclay and Ivo Lourenço Part III: Participation and Accountability for Essential Public Services Provision 11. ‘Participation’ for All? Challenges and Tools to Realize Participation for Vulnerable Persons with a Focus on Health Services Titti Mattsson 12. Mobilizing Public Participation as a Requirement of the Right to Health in the Context of China’s Air Pollution Huanlin Lang 13. Individual inputs and collective outputs: understanding the structural benefits of individual litigation on healthcare in Brazil Danielle da Costa Leite Borges 14. Access to Effective Remedies for the Protection of Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision in Colombia Jimena Murillo Chávarro 15. The Media’s Role in Ensuring Accountability for the Right to Health in China Yi Zhang Conclusion 16. International Guideposts for Socio-Economic Human Rights in Essential Public Services Provision Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf, Brigit Toebes