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Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context
Prepared under the supervision of Professor Tobias van Reenen at the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/932 Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context Van Reenen, Tobias Odongo, Godfrey Odhiambo UCTD Non-state actors Private actors Human rights Africa Socio-economic rights Violations Nigeria Transnational corporations Prepared under the supervision of Professor Tobias van Reenen at the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2002. "The exclusive focus on the state-centric paradigm of IHRL fails to address the increasing number of an array of private (non-state) actors who may come into play in terms of violations of human rights. Therefore while this study proceeds from the premise that the state is the primary focus of IHRL, it will be argued that the state cannot certainly be deemed the sole bearer of responsibility for human rights violations in view of the increase in the number of potential violators. Consequently, the study aims to address three issues. Firstly, it seeks to investigate the increase in the number of violators of human rights to include non-state actors (particularly transnational (multinational) corporations TNCs) and the effect of this increase on the violations of ESCRs. While the discussion will focus on the accountability of private actors vis-à-vis the protection of ESCRs, the area of civil and political rights is considered no less important. The discussion takes cognisance of the indivisibility and inter-dependence of all human rights in the sense that no precise contours separating all human rights can be said to exist. Secondly, the study seeks to review the dominant approach to human rights including human rights treaties and other relevant instruments to assess their potential in asserting the human rights obligations (including, ESCRs obligations)) of non-state actors. Thirdly and with specific reference to the TNC as a non-state actor in the African context, the study seeks to investigate the challenges to the problem of implementing the accountability of TNCs through the IHRL framework and suggest ways of addressing these challenges. Central focus will be placed on the accountability of TNCs for human rights violations, particularly ESCRs. The choice of TNCs in this study is justified on account of the immense economic power wielded by these entities vis a vis the changing notion of state sovereignty as will be emphasized in chapter 2. At a more specific level, the case study on the problem of accountability of TNCs is narrowed down to an African context particularly for two reasons. Firstly, the problem of control of TNCs is highlighted more in the case of the weaker state in the African context. Secondly, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ recent decision in the SERAC case that forms the basis of the case study in chapter 4 brings into light within a human rights treaty monitoring framework, the challenges of TNC- accountability within the context of Africa." -- Chapter 1. http://www.chr.up.ac.za/academic_pro/llm1/dissertations.html Centre for Human Rights LLM 2006-10-16T09:12:20Z 2006-10-16T09:12:20Z Oct-02 2002 Mini Dissertation Odongo, GO 2002, Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/932> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/932 en LLM Dissertations 2002(1) Centre for Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Pretoria 698057 bytes application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Non-state actors Private actors Human rights Africa Socio-economic rights Violations Nigeria Transnational corporations Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context |
| title | Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context |
| title_full | Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context |
| title_fullStr | Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context |
| title_short | Making non-state actors accountable for violations of socio-economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context |
| title_sort | making non state actors accountable for violations of socio economic rights a case study of transnational corporations in the african context |
| topic | UCTD Non-state actors Private actors Human rights Africa Socio-economic rights Violations Nigeria Transnational corporations |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/932 |