Author : Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107173655
This book critically examines models of domestic, regional and international judicial protection of economic, cultural and social rights in Africa.
Author : Asbjørn Eide
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9047433866
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.
Author : Ben Saul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199640300
"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.
Author : Julia Sloth-Nielsen
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category :
ISBN : 9780754679110
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.
Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509900837
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.
Author : Yash P. Ghai
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781869940270
South Africa is increasingly an attractive place for international investment. Investing in South Africa provides readers with an overview of the investment environment in South Africa, and information on investment opportunities, developments, and foreign direct investment incentives offered by the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI). It also outlines the support that the DTI offers new investors in South Africa. Through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), priority areas have been identified for Africa--one of which is the development of the private sector as a means to stimulate growth. An important element for investors in South Africa is that it is a gateway to the rest of Africa. Already many South African companies have learned many lessons in tackling the challenges of these markets. This provides a unique opportunity for international firms to draw on their lessons and experience.
Author : Olivier de Schutter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9780857930750
This title offers a selection of those major contributions which have shaped debate in the field of economic, social and cultural rights. The broad range of discussion includes: the nature of economic, social and cultural rights and the ability of courts to protect them; the effectiveness of non-judicial protective mechanisms at both the universal and the domestic level; ways of measuring whether states do enough to 'progressively realize' these rights; the impact of trade and investment liberalization, and of economic globalization generally, on the fulfilment of such rights; and the role of economic, social and cultural rights in development.
Author : Manisuli Ssenyonjo
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004218149
The African human rights system has undergone some remarkable developments since the adoption of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, the cornerstone of the African human rights system, in June 1981. The year2011 marked the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the African Charter. It also marked 25 years since the African Charter entered into force on 21 October 1986.This book aims to provide reflections on most of the major human rights issues in the past 30 years of the African human rights system in practice and discussion on the future: the African Charter s impact and contribution to the respect, protection and promotion of human rights in Africa; the contemporary challenges faced by the African Human rights system in responding adequately to the demands of rapidly evolving African societies; and how the African human rights system can be strengthened in the future to ensure that the human rights protected in the African Charter, as developed in the jurisprudence of the African Commission since the Commission was inaugurated in 1987, are realised in practice.The chapters in this volume bring together the work of 20 human rights scholars and practitioners, with expertise in human rights in Africa, under the following general themes: rights and duties in the African Charter; rights of the vulnerable under the African system; implementation mechanisms for human rights in Africa; and towards an effective African regional human rights system.
Author : Katharine G. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108418139
Captures significant transformations in the theory and practice of economic and social rights in constitutional and human rights law.
Author : Enyinna Nwauche
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319572318
This book evaluates the protection of traditional cultural expressions in Africa using South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana as case study examples in the light of regional and international approaches in this respect. Such protection is considered in the context of a combination of positive protection models such as the protection offered by intellectual property rights and negative protection such as tangible heritage protection and authorisations by national competent authorities. These models are in turn assessed taking into consideration human and peoples’ rights frameworks, which recognise and affirm group entitlement to, among others, traditional cultural expressions. These frameworks ensure that such traditional cultural expressions are available for further innovation and creativity.
