African Yearbook of International Law / Annuaire Africain de droit international, Volume 15 (2007)

SPECIAL THEME: REALISING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS IN AFRICA: INNOVATIONS, CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS
THÈME SPÉCIAL: CONCRÉTISER LES DROITS SOCIOÉCONOMIQUES EN AFRIQUE : INNOVATIONS, ENJEUX ET PERSPECTIVES

  • Introduction, Obiora Chinedu Okafor;
  • The Implementation Gap in the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Field: A Critical Cross-Examination of the Agenda of the United Nations, Pierre Sob;
  • Beyond Officialdom: Fallacies and Hypocrisy in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Discourse and Implementation in Nigeria, Dakas C. J. Dakas;
  • Beyond Naming and Shaming: Methodological Imperatives of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Advocacy, Bonny Ibhawoh;
  • Moving Beyond Rights in the Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Challenges in Contemporary Africa, Amy Tsanga;
  • The Protection and Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in Africa: Lessons from the South African Experience, John Cantius Mubangizi;
  • Justifiability or Judicialization: Circumventing Armageddon Through the Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights, Chima C. Nweze;
  • Litigating the Right to Health Before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: The Record so Far, Judy A. Oder;
  • Enforcing Social and Economic Constitutional Guarantees Before the Courts: The South African and Indian Experiences, Anashri Pillay;
  • Regional Protection of Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa: The Women’s Protocol and the African Union, Mosope Fagbongbe;
  • Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms and the Realisation of Social and Economic Rights in Africa, Paul D. Ocheje;
  • Impunity or Accountability in the Extractive Industries: Regulation, Reform, or Resistance? Jeanne M. Woods;
  • The Rights to “The Highest Attainable Standard of Health”: Trade Agreements and the Rights to Health in Africa, Obijiofor Aginam;
  • Toxic Waste Dumping and the Enjoyment of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Africa, Cyril Uchenna Gwam.

NOTES AND COMMENTS / NOTES ET COMMENTAIRES

  • Un instrument de lutte contre les pandémies internationales : le Règlement Sanitaire International n°2, Badr Zerhdoud;
  • Quelques réflexions sur les lois du 12 février 2007 portant modification du code pénal sénégalais et mise en oeuvre du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale, Raphaël Tiwang Watio;

BOOK REVIEWS / NOTES DE LECTURE

  • Loucaides Loukis G., European Convention on Human Rights, 2007
  • Gillespie Alexandre, Protected Areas and International Environmental Law, 2007
  • recensés par Géraldine Danhoui
  • Frans Viljoen, International Human Rights Law in Africa, 2007
  • reviewed by Daniel C. Turack

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