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A range of international human rights instruments, declarations and resolutions affirm that good health is a precondition for the enjoyment of all other human rights and for participation in socio-economic and political life. However, many people across the globe (especially in Africa and Asia) lack access to essential medicine. This article argues that access to medication, treatment and care is an essential element of effective responses to pandemics and other diseases. In particular, it is argued that international law imposes a minimum core (and non-derogable) obligation on states to provide essential medicine. In recognition of the increasing role that private actors are playing in ensuring access to essential medicine, their human rights obligations relating to access to essential medicine are also explored.

In the early 1990s, a wave of democratisation swept the African continents, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision. Two decades later, leading experts in the fields of public law, political sciemnce and democratisation studies assess to what extent accountable governance has takenroot in Africa. this book represesents new knowldge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries - Ghana, Malawi, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, with further references to Mozambique, Kenya and Swaziland - bringing the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent up to date

This book tracks and critiques the impact of the internet in Africa. It explores the legal policy implications of, and legal responses to, the internet in matters straddling human rights, development, trade, criminal law, intellectual property and social justice from the perspective of several African countries and the region. Well-known and emerging African scholars consider whether access to the internet is a human right, the implications on the right to privacy, e-commerce, cybercrime, the opportunities and dangers of admitting electronic evidence, the balancing of freedom of expression with the protection of intellectual property and how different African legal systems address this tension. This book will be an invaluable resource for a wide range of stakeholders, including researchers, scholars and postgraduate students; policymakers and legislators; lawyers and judicial officers; crime-fighting agencies; national human rights institutions; civil society organisations; international and regional organisations; and human rights monitoring bodies.

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.