Socio-economic human rights in essential public services provision / edited by Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf, and Brigit Toebes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Common challenges for socio-economic human rights and essential public services provision / Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf, and Brigit Toebes -- Reconciling international obligations and local realities : provision of pain control medication in resource-constrained countries - experiences from Uganda / Marie Elske C. Gispen -- The right to health and TRIPS : access to essential medicines and patenting in India / Jennifer Sellin -- Access to water services : the World Bank and water rights / M�onika Ambrus -- Is cutting people's electricity off 'cut off' from the ratione materiae jurisdiction of the CJEU and the ECtHR? / Panos Merkouris -- Disaster management in EU law : solidarity among individuals and among states / Mauro Gatti -- EU public service obligations and their potential for human rights protection / Iris Houben and Hetty Ten Oever -- Private providers of essential public services and de jure responsibility for human rights / Lottie Lane -- Pharmaceutical companies and intellectual property protection : human rights actors or recipients? / Shamiso Philomina Zinzombe -- The responsibility of business enterprises to restore access to essential public services at resettlement sites / Lidewij van der Ploeg, Frank Vanclay and Ivo Louren�co -- "Participation" for all? Challenges and tools to realize participation for vulnerable persons with a focus on health services / Titti Mattsson -- Mobilizing public participation as a requirement of the right to health in the context of China's air pollution / Huanlin Lang -- Individual inputs and collective outputs : understanding the structural benefits of individual litigation on healthcare in Brazil / Danielle da Costa Leite Borges -- Access to effective remedies for the protection of human rights in essential public services provision in Colombia / Jimena Murillo Ch�avarro -- The media's role in ensuring social accountability for the right to health in China / Yi Zhang -- International guideposts for essential public services provision and socio-economic human rights / Marlies Hesselman, Antenor Hallo de Wolf and Brigit Toebes.