Despite or Because of Contestation?
- Almost twenty years after its recognition in international human rights law, the human right to water continues to spark discussions about its scope and meaning. This article revisits the evolution and contestation of the right's first international legal framework, General Comment No. 15 from the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The analysis highlights the contestation of economic and social rights as a universal phenomenon at multiple levels, but argues that these meaning-making practices can support their validation and recognition.
| Author details: | Nina ReinersORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2021.0021 |
| ISSN: | 1085-794X |
| ISSN: | 0275-0392 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Human Rights Quarterly |
| Subtitle (English): | how water became a human right |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins Univ. |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/05/12 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2023/03/09 |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 15 |
| First page: | 329 |
| Last Page: | 343 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
