In this article I examine whether human rights may revive from natural rights. I will start by briefly considering some of the main objections formulated against the natural rights approach in order to show that human ...

Assuming that there is not terminological or conceptual impediment to call social and economic rights “human rights”, this paper argues that social and economic human rights are normatively different from classical civil ...

New environmental rights were introduced in Argentina with the 1994 amendments to the 1853 national constitution. This constitutional recognition of environmental rights is a fundamental step in the advancement of environmental ...

The human right to water is nowadays more broadly recognised, mainly due to the essential societal function that this resource plays; likewise, because of the present water scarcity is generating conflicts between its ...

Looking to the relatively recent "religious turn" in Locke scholarship, this paper argues for an interpretation that reconciles two apparently contradictory aspects of his thought: on the one hand, property rights, thought ...

Immigration poses a significant challenge to states’ existing social protection systems, especially in developing countries that are already struggling to provide social services for their citizens. In particular, immigration ...

Luego de más de medio siglo de existencia de regímenes internacionales de protección de los derechos humanos, todavía hay un nivel diferencial de protección recibido por los llamados derechos económicos y sociales, en ...