8th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture
Socio-Economic Rights Project - ESR Review
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ESR Review Vol 12 No 4 December 2011
This is the fourth issue of the ESR Review for 2011. Its articles discuss various areas of socio-economic rights, with a particular emphasis on how they relate to women’s lives. In an acknowledgment of the importance of women’s rights, Michelle Bachelet, the Under- Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, emphasises that ‘where laws and justice systems work well, they can provide an essential mechanism for women to realise their human rights. However, it also underscores the fact that, despite widespread guarantees of equality, the reality for many millions of women is that justice remains out of reach’ (UN progress report of the world’s women 2011– 2012, In pursuit of justice).
ESR Review, Volume 12, No 3, 2011
This is the third issue of the ESR Review for 2011. It is a special issue that focuses on and explores the interplay between access to socio-economic rights in the context of persons with disabilities and the needs of persons with disabilities to have economic and social security.
ESR Review, Volume 12 No. 2, 2011
This is the second issue of the ESR Review for 2011. It hails the adoption of the Principles and Guidelines on the Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights during its 48th ordinary session held from 10 to 24 November 2010 in Banjul, The Gambia. This long-awaited instrument is a landmark in the evaluation of economic social and cultural rights in Africa.
ESR Review, Volume 12 No. 1 2011
The first issue of 2011 features Realising the rights of older persons in South Africa and an appraisal of General Recommendation 27 of the CEDAW Committee on protecting the rights of older women.
ESR Review, Volume 11 No. 3 2010
The issue includes articles that provide an overview of the protection and enforcement of socio-economic rights in Africa today.
ESR Review, Volume 11 No. 2 2010
The issue includes articles on adolescents' sexual health rights, regulating private power in health, protection of socio-economic rights by the African Commission. It also contains developments on parliament and the MDGs as well as HIV and AIDS, among others.
ESR Review, January 2010
The first half of this year has seen positive developments in the area of socio-economic rights. At the international level, a positive development has been in the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OP-ICESCR), with Ecuador and Mongolia becoming the first countries to ratify the instrument.