This pioneering collection of original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum.

Kimberley Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social rights, and freedom of association. She is the author of Being Sure of Each Other (OUP, 2020) and Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (OUP, 2012).
David Jenkins is a lecturer in political theory at the University of Otago. He has published work on unconditional basic income, the politics of public space in India, homelessness, James Baldwin and recognition, homelessness, structural injustice, and work.
Adam Neal is a Leverhulme Trust-funded doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. His research concerns the social and interpersonal implications of poverty, the philosophy of work and the ethics of relationships.

• Acknowledgements


• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• 1: Henry Shue: Interlocking Rights, Layered Protections: Varieties of Justifications for Social Rights


• 2: Stephanie Collins: A Human Right to Relationships?


• 3: Alexandra Couto: A Right to Opportunities for Meaningful Relationships


• 4: Kimberley Brownlee: The Right to Participate in the Life of the Society


• 5: Jenny Brown: What Becomes of the Right to Marry? Disestablishment and the Value of Marriage


• 6: S. Matthew Liao: Do Older People Have a Right to Be Loved?


• 7: Jesse Tomalty: Social Rights at Work


• 8: Chiara Cordelli: Fair Equality of Opportunity, Social Relationships and Epistemic Advantage


• 9: Rowan Cruft: Communication and Rights


• 10: David Jenkins: The (Social) Right to the City


• 11: Elizabeth Brake: Rights to Belong and Rights to Be Left Alone? Claims to Caring Relationships and Their Limits


• 12: Anca Gheaus: The Role of Solitude in the Politics of Sociability


• 13: Simon James Hope: Normative Disorientation and a Limitation of Human Rights


• 14: Bouke de Vries: Four Types of Anti-Loneliness Policies


• Epilogue: Achieving Adequate Social Access


• Index