Vulnerability analysis serves a distinct purpose within adjudication of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights ('ECHR'), in that it has been used by the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’ or ‘the Court’) to lower the threshold for a finding of ill-treatment from which positive obligations relating to socioeconomic rights have arisen. However, the group-based notion of vulnerability invoked by the Court is extremely limited, producing minimal protection from deprivation whilst equally paternalizing and essentializing the populations it deems vulnerable. In light of these failings, this article proposes a new element to be incorporated within the Court’s vulnerability analysis which can deliver greater protection of socioeconomic rights via Article 3: the political theory of care. By highlighting care’s potential to transform the concepts of vulnerability and state responsibility whilst empowering the care-receiver, it argues that care can overcome the limitations of the Court’s current approach as a means of targeting destitution.

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《欧洲人权公约》第 3 条规定的脆弱性、护理道德和社会经济权利保护

脆弱性分析在《欧洲人权公约》（“ECHR”）第 3 条的裁决中具有独特的目的，因为它已被欧洲人权法院（“ECtHR”或“法院”）用来降低认定虐待行为的门槛，由此产生与社会经济权利有关的积极义务。然而，法院援引的基于群体的脆弱性概念极其有限，它只提供最低限度的保护，使其免遭剥夺，同时同样将其认为脆弱的群体视为家长式对待和本质化。鉴于这些缺陷，本文提出将一个新要素纳入法院的脆弱性分析中，该要素可以通过第 3 条更好地保护社会经济权利：关怀的政治理论。通过强调护理有可能改变脆弱性和国家责任的概念，同时赋予被护理者权力，它认为护理可以克服法院目前作为针对贫困的手段的方法的局限性。