Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights

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Autor(a) principal: Evangelista,Hugo Oliveira
Data de Publicação: 2019
Outros Autores: Domingos,Marta Prata
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: Over the past years, the expressions “austerity measures”, “economic crisis” and “troika” have been frequently used in the conversations of most European citizens. Now that most of the countries seem to have rebuilt their economies, we would like to understand the extent of the collateral damages. In this paper, we will be analysing the impact of the adoption of austerity measures on human rights issues. In order to reach this goal, we will be analysing three different cases (the first one was decided by the European Committee of Social Rights, and the others by the European Court of Human Rights). All cases are related to the austerity measures used in Greece and in Portugal at the time of the economic crisis. Drawing on official reports and on previous literature, we have concluded that the austerity policies have had a deep repercussion on human rights. However, that impact can be contained. In a second stage, we have explored the relationship between the two aforementioned institutions and observed that they complement each other, notwithstanding the fact that a lot of work still needs to be done to optimise that interaction, in order to guarantee greater protection to human rights.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
title Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
spellingShingle Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
Evangelista,Hugo Oliveira
Austerity Measures
European Court of Human Rights
European Committee of Social Rights
Interaction
Social Security
title_short Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
title_full Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
title_fullStr Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
title_full_unstemmed Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
title_sort Austerity measures and their impact on Human Rights: The interaction between the European Court of Human Rights and the European Committee of Social Rights
author Evangelista,Hugo Oliveira
author_facet Evangelista,Hugo Oliveira
Domingos,Marta Prata
author_role author
author2 Domingos,Marta Prata
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Evangelista,Hugo Oliveira
Domingos,Marta Prata
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Austerity Measures
European Court of Human Rights
European Committee of Social Rights
Interaction
Social Security
topic Austerity Measures
European Court of Human Rights
European Committee of Social Rights
Interaction
Social Security
description Over the past years, the expressions “austerity measures”, “economic crisis” and “troika” have been frequently used in the conversations of most European citizens. Now that most of the countries seem to have rebuilt their economies, we would like to understand the extent of the collateral damages. In this paper, we will be analysing the impact of the adoption of austerity measures on human rights issues. In order to reach this goal, we will be analysing three different cases (the first one was decided by the European Committee of Social Rights, and the others by the European Court of Human Rights). All cases are related to the austerity measures used in Greece and in Portugal at the time of the economic crisis. Drawing on official reports and on previous literature, we have concluded that the austerity policies have had a deep repercussion on human rights. However, that impact can be contained. In a second stage, we have explored the relationship between the two aforementioned institutions and observed that they complement each other, notwithstanding the fact that a lot of work still needs to be done to optimise that interaction, in order to guarantee greater protection to human rights.
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