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Confronting Ongoing Racial Discrimination in Schools Admissions Policies in South Africa

James Rooney - 20th February 2017

Socio-Economic Rights

I am now in my final month of working for the Legal Resources Centre and Rhodes University as the Oxford Human Rights Hub Travelling Fellow for 2016. This fellowship has been an incredible experience. After taking courses last year in Oxford which covered South African human rights and non-discrimination jurisprudence, the opportunity to actively engage […]

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Social Rights in the New Economic Architecture of the European Union

Olivier De Schutter - 13th February 2017

Socio-Economic Rights

What started in the United States as the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 led the European Union to fundamentally rethink its socio-economic governance tools, calling into question the balance between the economic and the social dimensions of European integration.  The sequence of events is well known. The financial crisis rapidly turned into a sovereign debt […]

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Aadhaar’s Bearing on India’s Public Distribution System and the Right to Food

Srujana Bej - 3rd February 2017

Socio-Economic Rights

Since 1951 India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) has operated as a safety net for millions of poor households. The System provides fixed quantities of food grains at affordable prices. In recent times, PDS has become contingent on Aadhaar-based vetting of right-holders. This has left some of the most vulnerable right-holders unable to access affordable food. […]

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Socioeconomic rights researchers, advocates and practitioners gather at Åbo Akademi University

Ndjodi Ndeunyema - 27th January 2017

Socio-Economic Rights

Through this blog, I share what I have learned from recently attending a week long advanced course on the justiciability of social, economic and cultural rights (SECR). The annual course forms part of the Global School of Socio-economic Rights and is organised by various institutions. It has been hosted at the Institute of Human Rights at […]

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Indigenous Peoples and Land Demarcation in Brazil: A Never-Ending Process?

Iago Morais de Oliveira - 13th December 2016

Socio-Economic Rights

From 7 to 17 March 2016, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, visited three Brazilian states and the Federal District in order to assess and highlight the current challenges faced by indigenous communities. As a result of these visits, the UNHRC produced a report released on August 8 2016 concerning […]

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Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the Courtroom: Litigation Strategies in Light of the Zika Outbreak

Sinara Gumieri and Lucia Berro - 1st December 2016

Socio-Economic Rights

Earlier this year the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency in response to the Zika virus, stating that “the level of alarm is extremely high.” It has taken one public health crisis to expose the longstanding human rights crisis around sexual and reproductive rights. As of September this year, 9,514 suspected cases of […]

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European Court of Human Rights to Consider Right to Education

James Rooney - 21st October 2016

Socio-Economic Rights

James Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a partnership between the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Rhodes University in South Africa, and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a pre-eminent South African public interest law firm. Two Oxford graduate students a year travel to Grahamstown, in South Africa’s […]

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Advancing the Right to Education in South Africa

James Rooney - 30th September 2016

Socio-Economic Rights

James Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a partnership between the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Rhodes University in South Africa, and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a pre-eminent South African public interest law firm. Two Oxford graduate students a year travel to Grahamstown, in South Africa’s […]

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Turning back the clock on Socio -Economic Rights: Kenya’s Court of Appeal decision in the Mitu-Bell Case

Alvin Attalo - 13th September 2016

Socio-Economic Rights

A July 2016 decision by the Kenyan Court of Appeal in Kenya Airports Authority v Mitu-Bell Welfare Society & 2 Others (“Mitu-Bell”) threatens to plunge the country back into the dark ages where the realisation of socio-economic rights was subject to the whims of the state. The case concerned a suit filed before the Kenyan […]

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Justice Scalia, Challenges to the Affordable Care Act, and a Missed Opportunity to Meaningfully Engage the Right to Healthcare

Valarie K Blake - 24th March 2016

Socio-Economic Rights

Justice Antonin Scalia was known for his polarising opinions on fundamental issues in American policy. Yet, his recent dissents in major legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are surprisingly tame given that healthcare policy is rife with complex social questions. Justice Scalia’s analysis in ACA legal challenges, which emphasised textual rather than policy […]

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