@article{2025:ploszka:economic_a,
title = {Economic and Social Rights in Central and Eastern Europe – Insights from the Perspective of the UN Human Rights System},
year = {2025},
note = {This article delves into the protection of economic and social rights
in Central and Eastern Europe from the United Nations (UN) human
rights protection system perspective. We analyse the extent to which
the broad inclusion of economic and social rights in domestic
constitutions translates into Central and Eastern European states’
ways of approaching the international protection of economic and
social rights. In particular, we examine whether the recognition of
the justiciability of economic and social rights in these countries’
domestic constitutions are borne out by their acceptance of human
rights treaties that protect economic and social rights, especially
those that enable individuals to bring communications at the
international level. Based on the concluding observations of the UN
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, we also study
Central and Eastern European countries’ approach to the domestic
implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights. We argue that there is a discrepancy between the
extensive constitutional protection of economic and social rights by
Central and Eastern European countries on the one hand, and their
reluctant acceptance of the international law counterparts of these
constitutional rights on the other.},
journal = {Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law},
pages = {863--890},
author = {Ploszka, Adam and Denka, Jan},
volume = {85},
number = {3}
}