The Book Segment examines the right to health as a legal and moral imperative, focusing on international and constitutional legal instruments as well as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It interrogates the role of states and non-state actors in realising the promise of the MDGs in...

The Article examines the question of peace and security in Africa against the background of the refurbished continental body, the African Union, and the New Partnership for Africa's Development. It examines the current mechanisms for dealing with conflicts in Africa, including the new Peace and...

Our age of Information Society (IS), and represented in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), offers immense opportunity for sustainable economic development and the reduction of poverty. It does so by increasing access to market information and reducing transaction cost to...

The Article examines the phonomena of globalization and the challenges of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Its claim is that the inequitable workings of the international economic system contributes to Africa's impovershiment. It also argues that failures of political and...

The Article examines the concept of the right to development in the context of the Third World. The Article examines how developing countries, in particular, can balance economic growth with basic human needs and human rights, It also considers the consequences for the new millenniun of the near...