Social rights have increasingly come into the spotlight with recent and remarkable trends in jurisprudence at the international and at the domestic level. The growing case law in the field of social rights has the potential to have a significant impact on the daily life of millions of people around the world. Particularly in times of financial and economic crisis, questions related to the protection of social rights are of great relevance. This book compiles landmark decisions of the most important regional human rights institutions (European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights). It not only points to specific developments in each human rights protection system but also reveals global trends in social rights jurisprudence.