SOC446H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Human Rights Campaign, Research, European Court Of Human Rights
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Week 13 reading new era for labor activism. Legal advocacy groups initiate vernacularization by identifying litigation opportunities at the international level and making international human rights norms accessible to local labor activists: 2. Social charter which doesn"t monitor socioeconomic rights in a proper way. International labour organization (ilo) established to provide decent work and justice for workers: played significant role in setting standards for providing labor rights. Implementation is weak: labour rights have less attention from human rights activists, growing effort by workers to promote labor rights as human rights international courts have started to respond to these demands for change. April 1 2020: study of bsg activism suggests that the intermediaries involved in vernacularizing human rights within the trade union movement are composed of two tiers, 1. Legal advocacy networks taking cases to the ecthr: drive litigation and identify human rights laws as opportunity for workers, 2.
