Economic and Social Rights in National Constitutions

Jung, Courtney; Hirschl, Ran; Rosevear, Evan

doi:10.5131/ajcl.2014.0030

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“…This measure is coded as 1 where the right exists and 0 where it is absent. These data were derived from the Toronto Initiative on Economic and Social Rights [64].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Determinants of Access to Sanitation: The Role of Human Rights and the Challenges of Measurement

Schiel

Wilson

Langford

2021

Water

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Ten years after the United Nation’s recognition of the human right to water and sanitation (HRtWS), little is understood about how these right impacts access to sanitation. There is limited identification of the mechanisms responsible for improvements in sanitation, including the international and constitutional recognition of rights to sanitation and water. We examine a core reason for the lack of progress in this field: data quality. Examining data availability and quality on measures of access to sanitation, we arrive at three findings: (1) where data are widely available, measures are not in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets, revealing little about changes in sanitation access; (2) data concerning safe sanitation are missing in more country-year observations than not; and (3) data are missing in the largest proportions from the poorest states and those most in need of progress on sanitation. Nonetheless, we present two regression analyses to determine what effect rights recognition has on improvements in sanitation access. First, the available data are too limited to analyze progress toward meeting SDGs related to sanitation globally, and especially in regions most urgently needing improvements. Second, utilizing more widely available data, we find that rights seem to have little impact on access.

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“…This measure is coded as 1 where the right exists and 0 where it is absent. These data were derived from the Toronto Initiative on Economic and Social Rights [64].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Determinants of Access to Sanitation: The Role of Human Rights and the Challenges of Measurement

Schiel

Wilson

Langford

2021

Water

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“…129 ii. Garantías constitucionales justiciables: aprender de la 126 Jung, Hirschl y Rosevear, 2014Rosevear, , p. 1043Rosevear, -1094. Para llegar a los datos actualizados hemos utilizado el conjunto de datos que los autores ponen a disposición en la página web de su proyecto https://www.tiesr.org/publications-data (consultado el 10.5.2021).…”

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Constitucionalizando el derecho a la salud para todos

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2021

Los Derechos Económcos, Sociales, Culturales Y Ambientales

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El reconocimiento del derecho al disfrute del más alto nivel posible de salud en una constitución nacional es una expresión jurídica fundamental y puede ser una herramienta esencial para respaldar y asegurar el sistema de salud como institución social básica en una democracia. Las áreas de la atención médica y sanitaria y los determinantes sociales de la salud suelen estar en una disputa entre los derechos, la dignidad, el bienestar y la mercantilización promovida por los intereses comerciales y la gobernanza neoliberal. Dichos sectores están experimentando tensiones sin precedentes para la salud y el bienestar derivadas de la desigualdad y el COVID-19. En este momento crítico, con la población votando en un referéndum para adoptar una nueva Constitución, Chile tiene una oportunidad única y democrática para garantizar legalmente el derecho al más alto nivel posible de salud de su población en su norma suprema. Esta es la voluntad del pueblo chileno, con encuestas representativas a nivel nacional, realizadas en 2020, que destacan que el 93% de los ciudadanos chilenos está de acuerdo con la afirmación “el derecho a la salud debe estar garantizado por la Constitución”. Pero ¿qué significa que una Constitución proteja el derecho a la salud? ¿Cuál es el contenido preciso de este derecho humano, cuáles son sus fuentes en el derecho internacional y cuál ha sido la experiencia de constitucionalización en otros países? Este capítulo traza la evolución de la salud como derecho humano; destaca las principales fuentes normativas del derecho a la salud en el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos; y subraya que este derecho fundamental abarca los derechos a la atención médica y los determinantes sociales de la salud, sobre la base de la igualdad y la no discriminación. A partir de una revisión de literatura especializada, normativa constitucional, casos emblemáticos y el análisis de los desafíos contemporáneos del sistema de salud, este capítulo destacará las buenas prácticas, las dificultades derivadas de las protecciones constitucionales y las experiencias que pueden orientar el proceso constitucional de Chile. Particularmente, se centrará en el debate de la garantía al derecho a la igualdad y no discriminación, y la necesidad de garantizar que las disposiciones constitucionales ofrezcan protección a las poblaciones más marginadas.

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“…Next, we utilise four primary measures of constitutionalisation of rights, with data derived from the Toronto Initiative on Economic and Social Rights (TIESR) [5]. First, to understand the broader rights environment, we utilise a measure of the total number of ESCRs in a state's constitution, adding all judicially enforceable and aspirational ESCRs.…”

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“…These efforts were given further support in 2010 when the UN General Assembly declared 'the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights [4].' Today, at least 39 countries have included the human right to water in their constitution [5].…”

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Does it Matter: Constitutionalisation, Democratic Governance, and the Human Right to Water

Schiel

Langford

Wilson

2020

Water

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States are urged frequently by the UN, policymakers, and activists to recognise the human right to water domestically. However, does such legal incorporation, often in national constitutions, affect water policy and the realisation of the right? While several qualitative studies report positive impacts, initial quantitative assessments have questioned the systematic positive impact of the national recognition of the human right to water. Yet, such quantitative analyses of the effects of constitutional rights to water often overlook important mediating policy factors. We test specifically whether strong democratic governance is a significant condition for ensuring that the constitutional recognition of the human right to water has concrete outcomes. Results of a multivariate regression analysis on a global sample of 123 states over a 15-year period provide two findings. First, the constitutionalisation of the right to water and other economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCRs), in national constitutions alone is not associated with material benefits related to the human right to water. Second, the constitutionalisation of those rights can have positive material benefits for water access when the rights are foregrounded in democratic governance.

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Economic and Social Rights in National Constitutions

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The Determinants of Access to Sanitation: The Role of Human Rights and the Challenges of Measurement

The Determinants of Access to Sanitation: The Role of Human Rights and the Challenges of Measurement

Constitucionalizando el derecho a la salud para todos

Does it Matter: Constitutionalisation, Democratic Governance, and the Human Right to Water

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