Using Community-Based Truth Commissions to Address Poverty and Related Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Violations: The UK Poverty Truth Commissions as Transformative Justice
Using Community-Based Truth Commissions to Address Poverty and Related Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Violations: The UK Poverty Truth Commissions as Transformative Justice
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利用社区真相委员会解决贫困及相关经济、社会和文化权利侵犯问题：英国贫困真相委员会作为变革性司法
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10.1093/jhuman/huab021
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2021
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Cahill-Ripley A
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Cahill-Ripley A
在金融危机和英国实施紧缩措施之后，全国各地的贫困扩大和加深。由此产生的对实现经济和社会权利的严重负面影响仍然存在。国家对这种与贫困有关的侵犯人权行为的责任主要是通过司法或准司法补救办法来解决的。然而，有人认为，由于范围和覆盖面的限制，需要包括更广泛形式的司法的替代和额外机制，以有效解决贫困和相关的侵犯权利行为。本文探讨了利用过渡时期司法实践中的替代性和额外的“司法”机制，特别是真相与和解委员会，解决贫困和相关的侵犯经济、社会和文化权利行为的附加值。借鉴社区真相与和解委员会的经验，我们评估英国贫困真相委员会（PTCs）作为实现贫困和相关侵犯人权行为正义的机制的有效性。核心论点是，虽然临时条款是一种重要和有意义的变革性司法形式，但使用更明确的经济、社会和文化权利议程来加强问责、补偿以及平等和公平，具有重要的附加值。总的来说，PTCs可以帮助缩小“司法差距”，并为联合王国的转型司法、解决贫困和实现经济、社会和文化权利做出宝贵贡献。
Following the financial crisis and the imposition of austerity measures within the UK, poverty across the country has widened and deepened. The resulting severe negative impacts on the realization of economic and social rights are still being felt. Accountability of the State for such poverty related human rights violations has predominantly been addressed by judicial or quasi-judicial remedies. However, it is contended that due to limitations of scope and reach, alternative and additional mechanisms encompassing broader forms of justice are required to effectively address poverty and related violations of rights. This article explores the value-added of addressing poverty and related violations of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs) using alternative and additional ‘justice’ mechanisms drawn from the practice of transitional justice, in particular truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs). Drawing upon the experience of community-based truth and reconciliation commissions, we evaluate the effectiveness of the UK Poverty Truth Commissions (PTCs) as a mechanism for realizing justice for poverty and related human rights violations. The central contention is that while the PTCs constitute an important and meaningful form of transformative justice, there is significant value-added in using a more explicit ESCRs agenda to enhance accountability, recompense and equality and fairness. Overall, the PTCs can help to close the ‘justice gap’ and make a valuable contribution to transformative justice, tackling poverty and realizing ESCRs within the UK.