Staff members of the Community Law Centre were actively involved in a broad-based civil society campaign to ensure the inclusion of socio-economic rights as justiciable rights in the Bill of Rights in the 1996 Constitution.

The Centre, together with the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, the University of Makerere of Uganda and the University of Ghana, jointly offers a course in the LLM on Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa degree.

It has worked with various civil society organisations on campaigns to improve access to socio-economic rights by marginalised and disadvantaged groups including, for example, the Ad Hoc Campaign for the Inclusion of Socio-Economic Rights in the Constitution; the National "Speak out on poverty" hearings; the Equality Alliance; the Child Support Grant Campaign; the Alliance for Children's Entitlement to Social Security Rights (ACESS); and the Basic Income Grant Coalition.

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The Project organises conferences, seminars and workshops on various themes relating to the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of socio-economic rights in South Africa.

The Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre is situated at the New Social Sciences Building, University of Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town.

ESR Review is produced by the Socio-Economic Rights Project, Community Law Centre, with financial support from the Norwegian Embassy through the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and with supplementary funding from the Ford Foundation and ICCO.

Institutions and Organisations

The Project conducts research on a wide range of topics pertaining to socio-economic rights in South Africa. It strives to ensure that its research can be applied in practical ways to promote access to socio-economic rights.

The Project publishes accessible resource, information and educational materials on socio-economic rights. The aim of these materials is to promote public debate, awareness and knowledge about socio-economic rights and the various ways in which these rights can be claimed.