Human Rights and Economic Policy Reforms

Aoife Nolan & Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (2020) Human rights and economic policy reforms, The International Journal of Human Rights, 24:9, 1247-1267, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2020.1823638, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2020.1823638

Posted: 10 Jan 2023

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Aoife Nolan

University of Nottingham - School of Law

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky

United Nations Human Rights Council

Date Written: July 1 , 2020

Abstract

This article focuses on the vexed relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. It opens with an exploration of the reasons for the historic and contemporary nonalignment and disconnect between these areas. It then turns to an overview of the 2019 Guiding Principles on Human Rights Impact Assessments for Economic Reform Policies, developed under the mandate of UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights. Having introduced the different contributions to the Special Issue, the authors conclude by addressing the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis for the relationship between human rights and economic policy reform. Will this crisis serve as an opportunity to accelerate mutual understanding or will human rights concerns remain subordinated to economic ones?

Keywords: human rights, economic policy, COVID-19, COVID, crisis, human rights impact assessment, economic reform, economic crisis, financial crisis, fiscal policy, debt, sovereign debt, human rights approach

Suggested Citation

Nolan, Aoife and Bohoslavsky, Juan Pablo, Human Rights and Economic Policy Reforms (July 1 , 2020). Aoife Nolan & Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky (2020) Human rights and economic policy reforms, The International Journal of Human Rights, 24:9, 1247-1267, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2020.1823638, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642987.2020.1823638 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4318413

Aoife Nolan (Contact Author)

University of Nottingham - School of Law ( email )

University Park
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
United Kingdom

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky

United Nations Human Rights Council ( email )

Palais des Nations
Geneva
Switzerland

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