Reading the right to food into the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights : Africa's regional developments

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2004

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ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa

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The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Charter) of 1981 is the principal regional instrument protecting human and peoples’ rights in Africa. It incorporates a wide range of socio-economic rights, including the rights to property, to work under favourable conditions and equal pay for equal work, to health, to education, family rights and the right to self-determination.

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Right to food, African Charter, Socio-economic Rights, African Commission

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Mbazira, C. (2004). 'Reading the right to food into the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights : Africa's regional developments'. ESR Review, 5(1): 5-7

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http://hdl.handle.net/10566/4906

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Socio-Economic Rights Project (SERP)