Five Challenges to Legalizing Economic and Social Rights

Chong, Daniel

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“…That is, states comply with human rights treaties to demonstrate that they are within the mainstream. The converse, demonstrating that one's country is out of the mainstream, may lead to condemnation from International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) that may be embarrassing enough to change practices (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Chong 2009). Others argue that international legitimacy is intimately related to domestic legitimacy in that countries that lose international legitimacy risk losing the support of their citizenry (Finnemore and Sikkink 1998).…”

Section: Beyond Islam: State Compliance With Human Rights Treatiesmentioning

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Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World

Chaturvedi

Montoya

2013

Politics and Religion

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Of the 45 Muslim majority countries in the world, 42 have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. While this does indeed signal a motive to improve women's rights, there is wide disparity in terms of which countries expand rights and which do not. Social science literature suggests that in addition to economic factors like wealth and oil resources, or political factors like the quality of democracy in the country, Islamic culture may be at odds with the Western conception of women's rights. We posit that Muslim countries are unique in this regard due to religious pressures that often conflict with conventional measures of human rights. Using data from the Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Dataset and the Religion and State Project, we find that Muslim countries that restrict the influence of fundamentalist religion in the government and population improve women's economic and social rights.

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Section: Beyond Islam: State Compliance With Human Rights Treatiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World

Chaturvedi

Montoya

2013

Politics and Religion

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Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens’ Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States

Bruzelius

2019

J. Soc. Pol.

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This paper looks at rights in practice to understand how migrant EU citizens’ formal social rights translate into substantive ones. It highlights a factor thus far overlooked in the literature on welfare states and migrants’ social rights: namely, the actors involved in welfare delivery. The argument is based, first, on non-profit organisations’ (NPOs) function as ‘rights intermediaries’; and second, on the distinct make-up of the ‘welfare mix’ across countries, with which NPO’s role in the provision of services, and hence their capacities and autonomy, varies. Focusing on EU citizens’ cross-border social rights, and drawing on in-depth research in Germany and Sweden, the paper reveals how NPOs defend and facilitate access to rights in both countries. Yet NPOs’ extensive role in the German welfare sector generates greater capacities for NPOs to pursue inclusive objectives than what is available to their Swedish counterparts, which occupy a much more limited position as welfare providers. This, it is argued, can be important for understanding how boundaries of social citizenship are drawn in each country.

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The Class Ceiling of Social Rights

Patriquin

2013

Journal of Progressive Human Services

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Five Challenges to Legalizing Economic and Social Rights

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World

Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World

Non-for-Profits and EU Citizens’ Cross-Border Social Rights in Different Welfare States

The Class Ceiling of Social Rights

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