ESR Review, March 2008

The 1st issue of 2008 is available. Articles in this issue include, Enforcing socio-economic rights as individual rights; Judicial remedies and socio-economic rights; The constitutional protection of those facing eviction from “bad buildings” and various updates on socio-economic rights issues.
  • Enforcing socio-economic rights as individual rights: The role of corrective and distributive forms of justice in determining “appropriate relief”
  • Judicial remedies and socio-economic rights: a response to Christopher Mbazira
  • The constitutional protection of those facing eviction from“bad buildings”: Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road,Berea Township, and 197 Main Street, Johannesburg v City of Johannesburg and Others CCT 24/07 (Olivia case)
  • Updates:South Africa’s commitment to realising socio-economic rights in 2008
  • Updates: The optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Book review: Global responsibility for human rights: World poverty and the development of international law