The calls for an international treaty to elaborate the human rights obligations of transnational corporations and other business enterprises have been rapidly growing, due to the failures of existing regulatory initiatives in holding powerful business actors accountable for human rights abuses....

Corporations can significantly affect the fundamental rights of individuals. This book investigates how to determine the substantive content of their obligations that emanate from these rights. In doing so, it addresses important conceptual issues surrounding fundamental rights. From an...

This book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and questions why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than violations of civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom of speech or to vote? Socio-economic rights have been widely...

This article considers the relationship between the environmental right in the South African Constitution, 1996 and the protection of the interests of animals. The question is addressed through articulating two interpretive approaches to the terms ‘conservation' and ‘sustainable use'. The...

Fundamental rights often are seen to promise much: relief from grinding poverty, decent education and non-discrimination. Yet, there is a stark difference between these ideals and the reality facing many across the world. This starting point provides a basis for exploring the nature of...

This paper seeks to address and develop the conceptual framework for dealing with socio-economic rights in times of economic crisis. Part I explores a peculiar but important conceptual feature of socio-economic rights, namely, the fact that they generally only give rise to positive obligations...

This chapter seeks to address the pressing question of how to improve access to justice in South Africa with a focus on socio-economic rights. It seeks to accomplish this through, firstly, conceiving of access to justice as a capability and exploring its importance. That, in turn requires...