Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection

Goldblatt, Beth (EDT); Lamarche, Lucie (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1849466920 / ISBN 13: 9781849466929

Editore: Hart Publishing, 2014

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• Titolo: Women's Rights to Social Security and Social Protection
• Editore: Hart Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849466920
• ISBN 13: 9781849466929
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security and protection and their relationship to human rights principles such as gender equality, participation and dignity. Alongside conceptual insights across the field of women's social security rights, the collection analyses recent developments in international law and in a range of national settings. It considers the ILO's Social Protection Floors Recommendation and the work of UN treaty bodies. It explores the different approaches to expansion of social protection in developing countries (China, Chile and Bolivia). It also discusses conditionality in cash transfer programmes, a central debate in social policy and development, through a gender lens. Contributors consider the position of poor women, particularly single mothers, in developed countries (Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland and Spain) facing the damaging consequences of welfare cuts. The collection engages with shifts in global discourse on the role of social policy and the way in which ideas of crisis and austerity have been used to undermine rights with harsh impacts on women.

Informazioni sugli autori

Beth Goldblatt is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Visiting Professor of the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She works in the areas of feminist legal theory, equality and discrimination law, comparative constitutional law, transitional justice, disability, family law, and human rights with a focus on economic and social rights, and the right to social security in particular.
Prior to joining UTS, she held positions at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and the University of the Witwatersrand. She is admitted as an attorney in South Africa and worked for many years on human rights litigation, research and advocacy at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.

Lucie Lamarche is Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Law at the University of Quebec in Montreal.