Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Economic

The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Demystification of Second and Third Generation Rights under the African Charter: Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) and the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) v. Nigeria

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justice C. Nwobike
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Failure To Protect ◽  
Action Center ◽  
The Right ◽  
African Commission

AbstractThis article argues that the decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in the Ogoni case represents a giant stride towards the protection and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights of Africans. This is predicated on the African Commission's finding that the Nigerian Government's failure to protect the Ogoni people from the activities of oil companies operating in the Niger Delta is contrary to international human rights law and is in fact a step backwards since Nigeria had earlier adopted legislation to fulfill its obligation towards the progressive realization of these rights. The findings of the African Commission demonstrate that economic, social and cultural rights are not vague or incapable of judicial enforcement. They also illustrate how the Charter can be interpreted generously to ensure the effective enjoyment of rights. Novel and commendable as the decision is, it is not without its shortcomings. These shortcomings lie in the failure of the Commission to pronounce on the right to development, its silence on the desirability of holding transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations, and the institutional weakness of the Commission in enforcing its decisions.

9 The Great Enterprise Today (2006)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pace John P
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Working Group ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Optional Protocol ◽  
Human Rights Council ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Phase

This chapter studies the arrival of the Human Rights Council. The idea of a Human Rights Council was raised in 1976, as the Great Enterprise entered a new phase. The documentation in 1976 on this issue is comprehensive, consisting of no less than five informative reports. In addition, the Commission on Human Rights had before it the analysis of the observations received from some Member States. They included an analysis of the deliberations at the Assembly that had taken place in November of 1975, which covered a range of topics, including ‘the possibility of transforming the Trusteeship Council into a Human Rights Council’. In 2005, the Secretary-General announced his plans to propose the establishment of a Human Rights Council to the Commission. A few months later, the World Summit decided on the establishment of a Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council inaugurated its work with the adoption of two international human rights instruments, which had reached completion in the Commission on Human Rights: the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It also extended the mandate of the Working Group formed under the Commission to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of the Commission’s Working Group on the Right to Development.

Reductionist Intellectual Property Protection and Expansionist (and “Prodevelopment”) Competition Rules as a Human Rights Imperative? Enhancing Technology Transfer to the Global South

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-272
Author(s):  
Klaus D. Beiter
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Global South ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Competition Rules ◽  
The Right ◽  
Dissemination Of Technology

Abstract Increasingly, the economy of industrialised countries moves away from being based on a multiplicity of independent innovators to one characterised by cross-licensing and the pooling of intellectual property (IP) rights. Competition law is accorded a more limited role. Refusals to license or restrictive licence terms are tolerated. This paradigm emphasises the innovation at the expense of the dissemination rationale of IP and competition law. The pressure on developing countries is to follow suit. However, this approach jeopardises overcoming the technology dependence of these states. Yet, the political consensus underlying the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was that, in exchange for IP rights protection, a transfer and dissemination of technology benefiting the global South would occur. This has not taken place so far. Taking this promise seriously requires according an enhanced, more social role to competition law. Articles 8(2), 31 and 40 of TRIPS – the TRIPS competition rules – could be interpreted in a way to accomplish this. This article argues in favour of a “prodevelopment” approach to IP-related competition law. This could be viewed as a demand of the rule of law at the international level. On the one hand, treaties such as TRIPS are to be interpreted in good faith. On the other, public interest and human rights considerations justify, as it were, require, such an approach. Articles 7 and 8 of TRIPS can play a crucial role in this regard. They reflect such public interest considerations as “object and purpose” of TRIPS. They also provide a link to international human rights law (IHRL). IHRL protects a (group) right to development, confirming “policy space” for World Trade Organization (WTO) members and the freedom to opt for a competition law model that facilitates dissemination. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) further protects various economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications (REBSPA). These rights may be said to give rise to “transfer and dissemination of technology” as a human right. Duties under the right to development and “territorial” and “extraterritorial” human rights obligations (ETOs) under the ICESCR support an understanding of competition law which is pro development, which takes account of local access and welfare needs. The article concludes with a set of 10 consolidated considerations for a “prodevelopment” IP-related competition law.

scholarly journals Linkage between Right to Development and Rights-based Approach: An Overview

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 96-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khandaker Farzana Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Global Partnership ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Right

The concept of right to development has been inserted into the rights discourse quite recently, though it was known earlier that theg proper implementations of human rights tend to secure the life standard and progressive development of the community. New concepts of development expressed its concern for the overall betterment of human being.1 Right to Development (RTD) is being recognized as a collective right in the human rights arena. On the other hand, Rights Based Approach (RBA) has an inseparable link with right to development which seeks for the identification of issues to make a need based assessment. In brief, a human-rights approach translates poor people’s needs into rights, and recognizes individuals as active subjects and stakeholders. It further identifies the obligations of states that are required to take steps – for example through legislation, policies and programs with a view to respect, promote and fulfill the human rights of all people within their jurisdiction.2 RBA addresses rights based issue to achieve goals adopted by MDG, like alleviating poverty, promoting education, ensuring gender equality and empowerment of the women, developing a global partnership for development etc. In this article, the right to development is being tried to accurately affiliate with the framework known as Rights Based Model with a view to characterizing a successful coordination between the two. Thus if the states intend to adjust their methods of functioning and fulfill their obligations to the beneficiaries according to the rights based model, the recognized human rights such as economic, social, cultural rights involved in human development would be enjoyed and respected by an individual irrespective of his class, group, origin and any other attributes. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/nujl.v1i0.18528 Northern University Journal of Law Vol.1 2010: 96-111

scholarly journals الحماية القانونية للنازحين في ظل القانون الدولي الانساني

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
احمد ابراهبم
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Durable Solutions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Economic

Although there is no special agreement for displaced persons, as in the case of refugees, they are protected under their national laws and human rights laws and are protected according to the rules of international humanitarian law during armed conflict as determined by the Geneva Conventions of 1949. The search for displaced persons' rights should not be limited to relevant conventions, since many of the rights of displaced persons will be found in the basic human rights conventions to which the displaced person should first benefit before being displaced. The status of displacement does not conceal the rights of the displaced as a human being, but should add to it new rights arising from the conditions that have arisen and the importance of this issue is greater. National authorities are unable or unwilling to fulfill their obligations, as well as the protection of the rights of refugees and the obligations of States provided for in the provisions of the International Refugee Convention Of 1951, which include assistance in the provision of food, adequate shelter, health care and education, the right to asylum, the provision of travel documents, the provision of refugees, the guarantee of fundamental human rights and the facilitation of voluntary durable solutions of repatriation Or integration into host societies, making international protection a necessity. International law underlines that civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights should be exercised without discrimination on grounds such as "national or social origin, property or other grounds." States must also eliminate any form of discrimination. Economic, social and cultural rights to ensure the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights and to the maximum extent of the resources available (for the State party).

The Status of Women’s Human Rights in Kenya and Strategies to Overcome Inequalities

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Maria Nzomo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women's Human Rights ◽  
The Right ◽  
International Instruments ◽  
Political Economic

This paper takes the position that the human rights of women are inalienable and an integral and indivisible part of universal human rights, which we define to include the right to full and equal participation of women with men, in the political civil, economic, social and cultural life at all levels. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which is one of the International instruments that explicitly focuses on women’s human rights, is quite comprehensive in its coverage. Consisting of 30 articles, CEDAW covers women’s human rights in all aspects of their lives—political, economic, social and cultural rights.

scholarly journals THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS AFTER 70 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-42
Author(s):  
MARÍA DALLI
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the first international text recognising universal human rights for all; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 25 recognises the right to an adequate standard of living, which includes the right to health and medical care. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Declaration, this article presents an overview of the main developments that have been made towards understanding the content and implications of the right to health, as well as an analysis of some specific advancements that aim to facilitate the enforcement thereof. These include: a) the implication of private entities as responsible for right to health obligations; b) the Universal Health Coverage goal, proposed by the World Health Organization and included as one of the Sustainable Development Goals; and c) the individual complaints mechanism introduced by the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (adopted on the 10th December 2008, 60 years after the UDHR).

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