The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa: international, regional and national perspectives

Foreword /Kate O'Regan --Part I: Introduction --The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa /Danwood M. Chirwa and Lilian Chenwi --Part II: International protection --Direct protection of economic, social and cultural rights in international law /Lilian Chenwi and Danwood M. Chirwa --Indirect protection of economic, social and cultural rights in international law /Martin Scheinin --Part III: African regional and sub-regional protection --The protection of economic, social and cultural rights under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights /Manisuli Ssenyonjo --The protection of women's economic, social and cultural rights in Africa /Rebecca Brown and Judy Oder --Socio-economic rights under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: progress and prospects /Julia Sloth-Nielsen --Protection of the economic, social and cultural rights of older persons and persons with disabilities in the African regional system /Lilian Chenwi --Group rights and the protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Africa /Danwood M. Chirwa --Regional institutional and remedial arrangements for the judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights in Africa /Frans Viljoen --Sub-regional judicial enforcement of economic, social and cultural rights /Solomon T. Ebobrah --Part IV: Domestic constitutional protection models and jurisprudence --Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in South Africa /Sandra Liebenberg --Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights under Kenya's 2010 constitution /Godfrey Odongo and Godfrey Musila --Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Lusophone legal systems: Angola and Mozambique /Aquinaldo C. Mandlate, Joao Nhampossa and Danwood M. Chirwa --Direct constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Francophone legal systems: Senegal /Fatimata Diallo --Ethiopia's hybrid constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights /Sisay A. Yeshanew --Uganda's hybrid constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights /Christopher Mbazira --Ghana's hybrid constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights /Peter A. Atupare --Indirect constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Nigeria /Enyinna S. Nwauche --Indirect constitutional protection of economic, social and cultural rights in cameroon /Atangcho N. Akonumbo.

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 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