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This episode introduces the series, explaining what economic and social rights are, where they come from, and how they fit into international human rights law.

This episode provides a general overview of economic and social rights duties.

This episode focuses on one of the key overarching obligations imposed by economic and social rights: progressive realisation.

This episode addresses one of the most commonly misunderstood obligations imposed by economic and social rights: the duty of states to use the maximum of their available resources to give effect to…

This episode focuses on the duty of states to ensure the satisfaction of minimum essential levels of economic and social rights.

This episode focuses on the presumption under international human rights law against the permissibility of retrogression – or backward steps – in terms of economic and social rights…

This episode outlines work rights (specifically the right to work and the right to just and favourable conditions of work), what they protect, and what they require of governments

This episode outlines the right to education, what it protects, and what it requires of governments.

This episode addresses the connections between economic and social rights, living standards and poverty.

In this episode, we will focus on the ways in which states can be held accountable for their implementation of their economic and social rights duties under international law.

This episode outlines the right to social security, what it protects, and what it requires of governments.

This episode outlines the right to adequate housing, what it protects, and what it requires of governments.

There are 46 million people enslaved around the world today. Yet we are at a tipping point: there is a global political commitment to ending slavery by 2030. Our research is helping to end…

There are more slaves alive today than at any point in history. Around the world, nearly 46 million people are forced to work against their will for no pay. Our MA Slavery and Liberation offers you…

We are the world's largest group of rights and justice scholars and advise governments and NGOs around the globe on the creation of sustainable, open and creative societies. More information:…

Take a journey through the years into the research conducted in the field of social sciences. On the way you'll see how this research has informed policies across the globe. To see the whole…

On April 21, 2016, the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice at the University of Nottingham hosted a special lecture by Professor Todd Landman, a world-leading expert on human rights. He…

Dr Carly Crouch seeks to demonstrate how the methods of the anthropologist can help us understand complex passages in the Hebrew Bible. She takes the Book of Deuteronomy as a test case and looks at…

Dr Claire Taylor of the Dept of History, one of the scholars belonging to that department’s Heresy Network, introduces the notion of heresy, heretics and dissent as a phenomenon that historians…

PhD student Sachi Tsukamoto, from The University of Nottingham, has organised a symposium on 'comfort women' -- the women and girls forced into sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army…

PhD Student Sachi Tsukamoto, from The University of Nottingham, explains why she decided to learn more about the plight of 'Comfort Women' -- the women and girls forced into sexual slavery…

Thomas talks about his course and why it interests him.

Ateka describes her interest in human rights and why she chose The University of Nottingham specifically.