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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"socio-economic rights"”.
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Contextualizing socio economic rights in post apartheid South Africa
The UNDP Human Development Report 1994 informs us that "a fifth of the developing world's population goes hungry every night, a quarter lacks afcess to even a basic necessity like safe drinking water, and a third lives in abject poverty - at such a margin of human existence that words simply fail …
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Philanthropic corporate social responsibility as a tool for achieving socio-economic rights in South Africa
… (CSR) highlights its four components: economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic responsibility. In South Africa, while the economic, legal and ethical components of CSR are regulated and attract punitive measures for erring corporations who fail to adhere to such demands, the …
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Socio-economic rights in Africa: a critical evaluation of legal protection mechanisms and Implementation strategies
… broad consensus that civil and political rights on the one hand, and socio-economic rights on the other, are ingenerated and indivisible. Taken together, they embody the cardinal norms which inform modem human rights systems as expressed through the lntemational Bill of Rights as well as …
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Human Rights and Economic Systems : Kenya’s Economic Policy and the Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights
This thesis unpacks relationship between economic policy formulation and implementation and the realisation of socio-economic rights. The paper provides an overview of the history of the economic system and policies in Kenya. It then conducts an in-depth analysis of the economic system and policy …
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Realising the socio-economic rights of refugees under international human rights law: A case study of South Africa
The purpose of this study is to outline the socio-economic rights of refugees in South Africa with a particular emphasis on their rights to education, housing and health care. The study aims to explore whether the current treatment of refugees in South Africa is in accordance with existing …
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The potential impact of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the realisation of socio-economic rights in the international arena: what can be learnt from the justiciability of socio-economic rights in South Africa?
… Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the 'Optional Protocol' or the 'OP-ICESCR') has recently been adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This document establishes a new complaints procedure for economic, social and cultural rights …
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The flattening of the COVID-19 pandemic curve and the legal paradox of socio-economic rights in South Africa
Major public health and socio-economic issues have been brought on by COVID-19, an infectious respiratory virus that causes symptoms similar to those of pneumonia. This study seeks to interrogate the implications of the legal approaches taken to address COVID-19 pandemic issues on the …
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The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa
… states. Given the redistributive value of socio-economic rights, the need to ensure their implementation as a relevant strategy to improve peoples’ general wellbeing is unquestionable.National Human Rights Commissions (NHRCs) are uniquely relevant to advance state implementation of …
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Public participation as a tool for the realisation of socio-economic rights: the pitfalls of state organised spaces of participation
… public participation in the realisation of socio-economic rights. The paper further explores the different interpretations of the notion of public participation in an attempt to critique and interrogate which kind of public participation actually allows for communities to meaningfully …
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Using the Child Support Grant to advance the socio-economic rights of children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa : a critical reflection
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-102).
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The promotion and protection of socio-economic rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: prospects and challenges in South Africa and Nigeria
This thesis argues that the nature of socio-economic rights makes their violation central to key poverty and developmental issues in Africa. The thesis further argues that an effective socio-economic rights' legal and institutional framework will aid the realisation of socioeconomic rights as well …
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The right to work and rights in the workplace: securing the socio-economic rights of foreign migrant workers in the construction sector in Cape Town
Human rights claims are primarily directed at the state, which is seen as holding the perfect obligation to ensure the realisation of rights, however, other actors who hold imperfect obligations may be more directly responsible for helping rights claimants realise their rights entitlements. This is …
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An analysis of the approaches of the African Commission to the socio-economic rights provisions of the African Charter : a comparative analysis with European and inter-American regional systems
… approach to analysing the realisation of socioeconomic rights by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights as compared with the European Commission and the Inter-American Commission. It examines the different approaches the Commission has adopted in interpreting the socioeconomic …
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The implementation of the socio-economic rights provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights at the national level : a case study of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
… examines the issue of the implementation of the socio-economic rights provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples‘ Rights (ACHPR) at the national level, in a case study of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These rights which comprise the right to property, the right to work, the …
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The utilisation of ubuntu can promote accountability in public officials and state institutions as well as give effect to social solidarity in South Africa
… The state is duty-bound to give effect to socioeconomic rights as enshrined in the Constitution. Ubuntu, with reference to its communal obligations’ focus, could serve to facilitate the realisation of critical socio-economic rights as well as forge social solidarity. It is submitted that …
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'Don't send your sick here to be treated, our own people need it more': immigrants' access to health care in South Africa
… in South Africa. The core idea of the Bill of Rights is that socio-economic rights are for everyone. Yet, its application suggests everyone means all citizens in the post-apartheid period, rather than all residents in South Africa. In the international domain, the human rights discourse calls …
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The Impact of Gender on Domestic Human Rights Abuse
This study develops three models of human rights determinants with the inclusion an untested variable, women in parliaments. The research is conducted on pooled cross-sectional time-series data from 130 countries between 1978 and 1996. For the purpose of analysis the Prais-Winsten Regression method …
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Information without power? Exploring the challenges and opportunities in the usage of the Promotion of Access to Information Act no 50 of 2000 (PAIA) as a potent tool for advancing socio-economic justice in South Africa Langton Miriyoga.
… culminating in the realisation of their socio economic rights. Conversely, in spite of the opportunities for the usage of ATI law as a tool for advancing social justice, the state often retains the power to defy requests for access to information hence power to deny access thereto. This …
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Non-conviction-Based Forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets to promote the right to education in Malawi.
… Malawi continues to undermine the realisation of socio-economic rights, particularly the right to education, by diverting public resources intended for essential services. Despite constitutional guarantees and extensive international and regional commitments, the education sector remains …
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