The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa

The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa

Author: Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1316802558

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The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa critiques the three main models of constitutionally protecting economic, social and cultural rights in Africa - direct, indirect and hybrid models. It examines the choices that states have made, how the models have worked, whether they have been tested in litigation and the jurisprudence that has arisen. The book analyses the protection of the economic, social and cultural rights in a range of African countries: Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Leading legal academics explore how these rights feature at the regional and sub-regional levels, as well as the link between domestic and international mechanisms of enforcement.


The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Author: Ben Saul

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 1358

ISBN-13: 0199640300

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"One purpose of this book is to respond to this shift: to look beyond the more abstract and ideological discussions of the nature of socio-economic rights in order to engage empirically with how such rights have manifested in international practice". -- INTRODUCTION.


Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Author: Asbjørn Eide

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001-06-01

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 9047433866

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The first edition of this text was a textbook on internationally recognized economic, social and cultural rights. While focusing on this category of rights, it also analyzed their relationships to other human rights, civil and political in particular. This revised edition updates the information.


Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Action

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Action

Author: Mashood A. Baderin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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The protection of economic, social and cultural rights is vital for everyone, no matter where they live. This volume sets out some of the important legal issues about these rights, including who has obligations, when they apply and how they are relevant to contemporary concerns, such as trade and democracy.


Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights

Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights

Author: Jackie Dugard

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1788974174

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This exciting Research Handbook combines practitioner and academic perspectives to provide a comprehensive, cutting edge analysis of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), as well as the connection between ESCR and other rights. Offering an authoritative analysis of standards and jurisprudence, it argues for an expansive and inclusive approach to ESCR as human rights.


The African Children's Charter

The African Children's Charter

Author: Julia Sloth-Nielsen

Publisher:

Published: 2011-06-28

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780754679110

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Ten years after the coming into force of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, this volume presents an analysis of its progress so far. Looking both backward and forward it provides a reflection on successes and achievements of the past, as well as setting an agenda for the future.


Natural Resource Sovereignty and the Right to Development in Africa

Natural Resource Sovereignty and the Right to Development in Africa

Author: Carol Chi Ngang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-25

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 100043379X

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This book explores the nexus between natural resources ownership and the right to development in Africa. The right to sovereignty over natural resources and the right to development are recognised and protected in an extensive framework of international, regional and domestic instruments. They guarantee people's entitlement to fully and freely utilise their natural resources as a means of subsistence and for economic, social and cultural development. Yet, despite the abundance of natural resources in Africa a majority of the people on the continent remain largely impoverished. This book articulates the central argument that to achieve the right to development in Africa requires appropriate governance of the continent’s natural resources to which the people of Africa are guaranteed sovereign ownership. With case study illustrations from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, chapters explore the normative measures, specific guarantees and community entitlements to natural resources for the realisation of the right to development. The book will be an invaluable guide to scholars and postgraduate students of Natural Resources, Development and African studies as well as policymakers and practitioners in these areas.


Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law

Author: Manisuli Ssenyonjo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 1006

ISBN-13: 1509900837

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Since the first edition (published in 2009), there have been several important treaty developments, including the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) on individual communications, and significant developments in the case law on economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights. The second edition addresses these developments and explores ESC rights from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. It has been fully updated to include new material and up-to-date coverage of the case law of human rights bodies and national courts on ESC rights. In addition to the rights to health, education and work covered in the first edition, the second edition analyses new developments, such as the rights to adequate food, water and sanitation, adequate housing, social security and cultural rights. It also considers several contemporary issues including the extraterritorial human rights obligations of states in the area of economic, social and cultural rights; non-state actors; relationship of the ICESCR to other areas of international law; the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR; regional protection of ESC rights; more examples of the domestic protection of ESC rights; the protection of ESC rights of vulnerable groups; contemporary challenges to ESC rights, including poverty, corruption, armed conflicts and terrorism. It concludes by exploring the possible establishment of a World Court of Human Rights.