The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa
International, Regional and National Perspectives

This book critically examines models of domestic, regional and international judicial protection of economic, cultural and social rights in Africa.

Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa (Edited by), Lilian Chenwi (Edited by)

9781316625866, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 June 2018

607 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.86 kg

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.

Part I. Introduction: 1. The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa and Lilian Chenwi
Part II. International Protection: 2. Direct protection of economic, social and cultural rights in international law Lilian Chenwi and Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa
3. Indirect protection of economic, social and cultural rights in international law Martin Scheinin
Part III. African Regional and Sub-Regional Protection: 4. The protection of economic, social and cultural rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Manisuli Ssenyonjo
5. The protection of women's economic, social and cultural rights in Africa Rebecca Brown and Judy Oder
6. Socio-economic rights under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: progress and prospects Julia Sloth-Nielsen
7. Protection of the economic, social and cultural rights of older persons and persons with disabilities in the African regional system Lilian Chenwi
8. Group rights and the protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa
9. Regional institutional and remedial arrangements for the judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights in Africa Frans Viljoen
10. Sub-regional judicial enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights Solomon T. Ebobrah
Part IV. Domestic Constitutional Protection Models and Jurisprudence: 11. Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in South Africa Sandra Liebenberg
12. Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights under Kenya's 2010 Constitution Godfrey Odongo and Godfrey Musila
13. Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Lusophone legal systems: Angola and Mozambique Aquinaldo C. Mandlate, Joao Nhampossa and Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa
14. Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Francophone legal systems: Senegal Fatimata Diallo
15. Ethiopia's hybrid constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights Sisay A. Yeshanew
16. Uganda's hybrid constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights Christopher Mbazira
17. Ghana's hybrid constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights Peter A. Atupare
18. Indirect constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Nigeria Enyinna S. Nwauche
19. Indirect constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Cameroon Atangcho N. Akonumbo.

Subject Areas: Law & society [LAQ], Society & culture: general [JF]