Socio-Economic Rights

Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty

Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty

Over eighteen million of South Africa’s poorest peoples breathed a sigh of relief when, on 23 January 2025, the High Court of Pretoria handed down judgment in Institute for Economic...
Advancing Environmental Justice: The Supreme Court of Kenya holds State Agencies Accountable for Environmental Harm in Owino-Uhuru case

Advancing Environmental Justice: The Supreme Court of Kenya holds State Agencies Accountable for Environmental Harm in Owino-Uhuru case

On 6th December 2024, the Supreme Court of Kenya affirmed the constitutional rights to a Clean and Healthy Environment and the highest Sustainable Standard of Health Care and Sanitation as...
Unraveling Rights: The Struggle for Freedom of Movement Among Syrian Refugees in  Türkiye

Unraveling Rights: The Struggle for Freedom of Movement Among Syrian Refugees in Türkiye

Over the past decade, Türkiye has tightened some of its policies concerning Syrian refugees. Among the most significant policies is the restriction on freedom of movement, which reflects Türkiye’s legal...
Testing the Limits of the Right to Peaceful Demonstration under the 2010 Constitution: Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill

Testing the Limits of the Right to Peaceful Demonstration under the 2010 Constitution: Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill

Kenya has for the past three weeks been thrust into the international scene due to demonstrations under the hashtags #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #Rutomustgo. The demonstrations advocated for the rejection of the...
The Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: Religious Persecution, Human Rights, and Islam

The Ahmadiyya in Pakistan: Religious Persecution, Human Rights, and Islam

The Ahmadiyya are a religious minority who suffer persecution in Pakistan and many other Muslim-majority countries. In 2023, for example, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that at least...
The Right to Water in the European Blue Deal: A New Constitutional Challenge

The Right to Water in the European Blue Deal: A New Constitutional Challenge

There is a narrow catalogue of goods and values which represent fundamental importance for human survival, dignity and protection of life; consequently, these should be guaranteed and respected within international...
In Search of Lost Climes: the Historic Litigation in Navahine v Hawai‘i

In Search of Lost Climes: the Historic Litigation in Navahine v Hawai‘i

In what has been described as a ‘world first’ in constitutional climate litigation, youth plaintiffs from Hawai‘i have secured a historic Settlement Agreement that underscores both the realities of climate...
Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth with Olivier De Schutter

Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth with Olivier De Schutter

Oxford Human Rights Hub · Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth with Olivier De Schutter   In today’s episode, we’ll be talking to Olivier De Schutter, a Belgian legal scholar specialising in...
Australia inches closer to a national Human Rights Act

Australia inches closer to a national Human Rights Act

Australia is the only western liberal democracy without some form of federal charter of human rights. That may soon change, with a recent parliamentary inquiry recommending a federal Human Rights...
The Role of The World Bank in Urban Resettlement in India

The Role of The World Bank in Urban Resettlement in India

https://soundcloud.com/oxhrh/the-role-of-the-world-bank-in-urban-resettlement-in-india?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing In this special episode guest interviewer, Judy Fudge, a professor in labour studies at McMaster University, interviews Gayatri Krishna, a doctoral student in the School of Labour Studies at...
The Principle of Systemic Integration at the ECtHR after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

The Principle of Systemic Integration at the ECtHR after Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

On April 9 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) issued a landmark ruling in the case of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and others v Switzerland, marking...
Beyond Bogus Self-Employment: the EU Platform Work Directive’s Presumption of Employment, and its Implications for the Future of Employment Rights in the Gig Economy

Beyond Bogus Self-Employment: the EU Platform Work Directive’s Presumption of Employment, and its Implications for the Future of Employment Rights in the Gig Economy

On 11 March 2024, the European Union’s employment and social affairs ministers voted to adopt the Platform Work Directive (‘PWD’). First proposed by the Commission in December 2021, the Directive...

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