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The justiciability of social rights. Habitat and housing rights in the case of Ecuador (2007-2017)

Abstract:

The justiciability of the Economic, Social, Cultural and Nature Rights represent the main theoretical and practical challenge in the human rights field in Latin America, specially in the actual time of crisis, conservative restoriation and return of the neoliberal agenda in the region. However, in the last decade, the Latinamerican New Constitutionalism has undergone a drastic shift in relation to the traditional social rights understimation and their exclusion as subjetive rights. The present work purpose is analysis of the justiciability procedures and enforceability dimensions of the the habitat and housing rights in Ecuador (2007-2017), emphasizing the historic constrains and political potencialities that the Latinamerican New Constitutionalism has represented from a social justice perspective.