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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.

Energy for Life will build on collaborations between the University of Nottingham and leading research institutions in Asia, Latin America and Africa to help overcome challenges faced by developing…

Conor Cunningham looks at the intimate connection between Goodness, Truth, and Beauty as these are studied by theologians. Together these are known as the transcendentals because they are…

Dr Frances Knight describes a ‘map of salvation’ produced by the founder of the Salvation Army in 1890 that encapsulates his religious vision.

Most of the time of most humans for most of history has been spent obtaining and preparing food for our survival. So for theists, food is both the gift of God and the work of human hands, and each…

An entire street of ecohouses at The University of Nottingham has been completed with the opening of the Mark Group ecohouse. The house will showcase some of the latest designs and building…