Socio-Economic rights in Zambia: Perspectives and Prospectives
| dc.contributor.author | Mulele, Kwibisa Lydia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-26T10:43:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-09-26T10:43:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-09-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) proclaims the rights found in both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR) with equal emphasis, the two sets of rights have not been accorded equal status. Civil and Political rights have become more predominant than Socio-economic rights. While the former enjoy high esteem and legal backing, the latter are often neglected and most of the time just left in the preambles of many a constitution as Directive Principles of State Policy that only serve as a guide in the development and implementation of polices of the state and have no enforcement power.In Zambia, socio-economic rights are provided for in Part ix of the Constitution. They include the right to health, right to work, right to adequate housing and right to education. It is generally accepted that these rights require a lot of resources, which resources are usually not available. Due to this perceived resource constraint, these rights are therefore, not justiciable. Accordingly, article 111 of the Constitution provides for the non-justiciability of these rights. In addition, desirable though they are, socio-economic rights are not perceived to be as important as civil and political rights because they belong to the second generation group of rights. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/2686 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Civil rights -Zambia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Civil rights --Political aspects--Zambia | en_US |
| dc.title | Socio-Economic rights in Zambia: Perspectives and Prospectives | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |