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The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa
Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/49531 The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa Viljoen, Frans Killander, Magnus Beredugo, Ayebaesin J. UCTD Poverty eradication Sustainable development Good governance Inclusive economic development Law theses SDG-16 SDG-01: No poverty Law theses SDG-01 SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth Law theses SDG-08 Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. For decades, widespread poverty and increasing inequality continue to wreak social deprivation and diminish the quality of life across Commonwealth African 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 socio-economic rights. These institutions function in most Commonwealth African states, yet contemporary scholarship has hardly noticed the relevance and practical efforts of NHRCs in advancing the implementation of socio-economic rights. To fill this gap, this study evaluates the role and effectiveness of NHRCs in advancing domestic implementation of socioeconomic rights in Commonwealth African states, using the National Human Rights Commissions (NHRCs) of Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda as case studies. Employing a mix of valuable data generated through primary and secondary sources and interviews with relevant stakeholders, including senior members and staff of the focused NHRCs and representatives of relevant NGOs, the study concludes that NHRCs are strategically valuable institutions for advancing the domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth African states. However, the ability of NHRCs to play an effective role in this regard is predicated on four background factors: the explicit provision of socio-economic rights as justiciable guarantees in the constitutional framework of states; the granting of explicit legal or constitutional mandate on socio-economic rights to NHRCs; strengthening the institutional architecture of NHRCs and the ability of the courts and parliament to adequately support and supplement the efforts these institutions. Therefore, the study recommends the need to ensure that these factors are provided in the legal culture and practice of Commonwealth African states in relation to the legal status of socioeconomic rights and mandates of NHRCs to advance the domestic implementation of these rights. tm2015 Centre for Human Rights LLD unrestricted 2015-08-25T08:35:53Z 2015-08-25T08:35:53Z 2014-12 2014 Thesis Beredugo, AJ 2014, The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa, LLD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49531> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49531 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Poverty eradication Sustainable development Good governance Inclusive economic development Law theses SDG-16 SDG-01: No poverty Law theses SDG-01 SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth Law theses SDG-08 The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa |
| title | The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa |
| title_full | The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa |
| title_fullStr | The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa |
| title_short | The role and effectiveness of National Human Rights Commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio-economic rights in Commonwealth Africa |
| title_sort | role and effectiveness of national human rights commissions in advancing domestic implementation of socio economic rights in commonwealth africa |
| topic | UCTD Poverty eradication Sustainable development Good governance Inclusive economic development Law theses SDG-16 SDG-01: No poverty Law theses SDG-01 SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth Law theses SDG-08 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49531 |