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Aoife Nolan

Aoife Nolan is president of the Council of Europe European Committee of Social Rights, the leading European monitoring mechanism on social and economic rights. She is professor of international human-rights law and director of the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham.

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Liberal Democracy Depends on Social Rights

Aoife Nolan

Democratic backsliding and rising social insecurity have gone hand in hand.

European Social Charter: more relevant than ever

Aoife Nolan

The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.