This book aims to introduce concrete and innovative proposals for an holistic approach to supranational human rights justice through a hands-on legal exercise: the rewriting of decisions of supranational human rights monitoring bodies.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Rewriting Decisions from a Perspective of Human Rights Integration Eva Brems Part I Civil and political rights 2. Questions of Method : the Use of “External Sources” in National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers v the United Kingdom (ECtHR) Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck, Frédéric Krenc and Olivier Van der Noot 3. Standing Alone or Together: The Human Rights Committee’s Decision in A.P. v Russian Federation Gerald L. Neuman 4. Use of comparative authority in the drafting of judgments of a new regional human rights court. African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Zongo v Burkina Faso Magnus Killander 5. Same-Sex Marriage in Polarized Times: Revisiting Joslin v New Zealand (HRC) Malcolm Langford Part II Economic and Social Rights 6. Caring, rescuing or punishing? Rewriting R.M.S v Spain (ECtHR) from an integrated approach to the rights of women and children in poverty Valeska David 7. Re-imagining human rights responsibility: shared responsibility for austerity measures in Federation of employed pensioners of Greece (IKA-ETAM) v Greece (ECSR) Wouter Vandenhole Part III Women’s rights 8. Yilmaz-Dogan v The Netherlands (CERD): forum shopping and intersecting grounds of discrimination thirty years later Rhona Smith 9. Developing the full range of state obligations and integrating intersectionality in a case of involuntary sterilization. CEDAW Committee, 4/2004, AS v Hungary Eva Brems 10. Objection ladies! Taking IPPF-EN v Italy (ECSR) one step further Emmanuelle Bribosia, Ivana Isailovic and Isabelle Rorive Part IV Disability rights 11. Rewriting CLR on behalf of Valentin Campeanu v Romania (ECtHR): actio popularis as ultimum remedium to enhance access to justice of victims with a mental disability Helena De Vylder 12. Integrating disability and elder rights into the ECHR: rewriting McDonald v the United Kingdom (ECtHR) Marijke De Pauw and Paul De Hert 13. Another look at Glatzel (ECJ). Of principles and discriminations Antoine Bailleux and Isabelle Hachez Part V Indigenous peoples’ rights 14. Taking seriously indigenous peoples’ right of self-determination and the principle of ‘free, prior and informed consent’. Human Rights Committee, 2102/2011, Paadar et al. v Finland Martin Scheinin 15. Rewriting Social and Economic Rights Action Centre and the Centre for Economic and Social Rights v Nigeria (African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights): Pushing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Africa Forward Stefaan Smis and Derek Inman 16. Moving Human Rights Jurisprudence to a Higher Gear: Rewriting the case of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku v Ecuador (Inter-Am. Ct HR) Lieselot Verdonck and Ellen Desmet Index