Le droit international général produit des effets à l'égard de l'ordre juridique de l'Union. Ces effets résultent du fait que l'Union est soumise à son respect en tant que sujet de droit international. Néanmoins, le droit international général n'est une source du droit de l'Union que si les conditions posées par le droit de l'Union lui-même sont vérifiées, le droit de l'Union posant un filtre à l'entrée du droit international général dans l'ordre juridique de l'Union. En tant que source formelle du droit de l'Union, le droit international général est l'objet d'une invocabilité devant la Cour de justice. Le droit international général, source du droit de l'Union, est un vecteur large d'interprétation et un vecteur limité de validité du droit de l'Union, son invocabilité connaissant des particularités au sein du système juridique de l'Union. / The European Union is a subject of international law and its externat relations are conducted within the framework of general international law. As a result, the European Union must comply with it, which necessarily have effects on its own legal order. The effects of general international law on European Union legal order depend, however, on the conditions set by the European Union law itself. lt makes a screening of general international law entering the European Union legal order so that it can become there a source of law. As a formal source of European Union law, general international law is invoked in the Court of Justice. lt is subject to a large interpretation scrutiny and a limited validity scrutiny by the Court of Justice, the justiciability of general international law having, therefore, a specific treatment.

Le droit au développement est une singularité du droit international contemporain. Désigné comme un droit fondamental inaliénable, il vise à garantir l’épanouissement des personnes et l’amélioration de la condition humaine. Ce droit polyvalent fournit à ses sujets un titre pour agir afin que la personne humaine soit à l’initiative, au centre et au bénéfice de toutes les activités de développement. Mais sa nature complexe, sa vaste finalité de justice sociale et les captations militantes rendent sa juridicité délicate. Il est souvent présenté comme une vieille lune ayant chu dans les limbes.Or, après une brève éclipse, le droit au développement resurgit par des voies inattendues, délié de l’idéologie antérieure, en relation avec les métamorphoses des concepts du développement. Sa résurgence lui fait gagner en densité et illustre la variété du law-making process. Des standards sont élaborés, des jurisprudences s’établissent et des pratiques naissent. Le phénomène commande une analyse nouvelle, axée sur l’effectivité. Celle-ci s’entend de son existence positive comme prérogative invocable par des titulaires identifiés, de son usage et de sa réception dans les ordres juridiques.Au-delà, son affermissement interroge les transformations à l’œuvre dans le droit des gens. Une symbiose se forme en effet entre les progrès d’effectivité du droit au développement et le processus d’humanisation du droit international. Cette interaction permet in fine la conciliation des droits de l’homme, des droits des peuples et des droits des États, dans la perspective d’un humanisme juridique pragmatique. / The right to development is a singularity in contemporary international law.It has been presented frequently as a inalienable and fundamental right : it aims to guarantee the personal fulfillment and the improvement of human condition. This multi-skilled and multi-purpose right gives to its subjects (human beings) a legal entitlement, enabling them to become the beginning, the center and the beneficiaries of all development activities. But its complex nature, its large purpose of social justice and political militancy make it juridicity difficult. The right to development is often summarized as an old idea in limbo.However, after a discrete periode, the right to development reappears by unexpected ways, free of its old ideologies, in connexion with the metamorphosis of the new concepts of development. Its resurgence is making itself stronger : it is an illustration of the variety of the law making process in international law. Some standards are elaborating, legal precedents and jurisprudences are coming, and certain practices of this right are emerging. This phenomenon requires a new analysis based on the effectivity of the right.Beyond its use as right per se, the consolidation of the right to development reveals current transformations in international law. A symbiosis exists between the effective progress of the right to development and the process of humanization of the international law. This connexion enable a reconciliation between human rights, peoples' rights and States' rights, in the perspective of a pragmactic legal humanism.

<p>Poverty and inequality are deeply entrenched in Kenya, with the country being one of the most unequal countries in the world. To eradicate poverty and inequality, enhance the achievement of social justice, fast-track human development, as well as to entrench participatory democracy<br /> and a culture of justification in governance, Kenya has, for the first time, entrenched justiciable socio-economic rights (SERs) in its 2010 Constitution. In this thesis, I undertake a critical analysis of the prospects for the implementation and enforcement of the entrenched SERs as well as the probable challenges that Kenya may face in their realisation. In this endeavour, the thesis develops a theoretical and interpretive approach for the realisation of these entrenched SERs. It entails an expansive analysis of the nature, scope, content and extent of the SERs entrenched in the 2010 Kenyan Constitution, and especially the place of international human rights obligations contained in customs and ratified international human rights treaties due to the provisions of the 2010 Constitution which espouse the direct application of international law in Kenya&rsquo / s domestic legal system. It is submitted in this thesis that in order to improve the socio-economic conditions of the poor, vulnerable and marginalised groups in Kenya, there is a need for their socio-economic as well as political empowerment to enable them to effectively take part in societal decision-making in both the public and private spheres with regard to resource (re)distribution. The theory of dialogical constitutionalism, based on the constitutionally entrenched principle of popular participation in governance and public decision-making, is aimed at the realisation of both political and socio-economic empowerment of these groups. Even though the theory of dialogical constitutionalism underscores the importance of litigation in the achievement of the transformative aspirations of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution contained in the entrenched SERs, it acknowledges that litigation is not the panacea of SER enforcement, and that other political and advocacy strategies play an important role in the emancipation of the socio-economically deprived groups in society. The thesis thus advocates a multi-pronged strategy which espouses the equal participation of all sectors of society in a collaborative and cooperative deliberative effort aimed at the full realisation of the entrenched SERs. To accompany the above theoretical framework for the interpretation and implementation of the entrenched SERs, the thesis further proposes a transformative and integrated approach which combines the progressive aspects of the minimum core approachand the reasonableness approach. This is an approach of purposive interpretion which, in the first instance, envisages the courts undertaking a strict and searching scrutiny of the SER implementation framework developed by the political institutions of the State to ensure that sufficient provision has been made for the basic necessities of the most poor and vulnerable groups in society, basically the espousal of a minimum core content approach. The approach entails the requirement that should the SER implementation framework fail to provide this basic minimum to vulnerable groups, and the political institutions do not provide a substantive justification as to the failure, then the courts should find the relevant SER implementation<br /> framework per se unreasonable and thus invalid. However, should the implementation framework provide sufficiently for the basic essentials for vulnerable groups, the courts should then proceed to review it using the reasonableness standards that have been developed by the<br /> South African Constitutional Court. The rationale for this searching analysis is the acknowledgement that if the needs and interests of the most indigent and marginalised in society are not catered for, the entire corpus of rights in the Bill of Rights becomes redundant. The thesis then undertakes a case study of two rights, the right to food and the right to housing, using the theoretical and interpretive approaches developed in the previous chapters of the thesis. On food security, the thesis finds that Kenya is a food insecure country with a declining food production capacity. This is basically due to a lack of subsidy to farmers, global warming leading to intermittent rainfall, lack of investment in sustainable agriculture as well as a fragmented and contradictory legislative and policy agenda. In response to this situation, the thesis proposes the adoption of a livelihoods approach to food security in Kenya, based on the constitutionally entrenched right to food and other supporting rights. This approach advocates the enhancement of the food entitlements of the different sectors of the Kenyan society to ensure their access to adequate and nutritious food, be it through self-production or through the market. On the right to housing, the thesis finds that housing plays a crucial role in ensuring that people are able to have a holistic, dignified and valuable existence. However, Kenya faces a dire housing situation, with the majority of Kenyans, both in rural and urban areas lacking adequate shelter and sanitary conditions, evidenced by the large informal settlements in urban areas and the squatter phenomenon in rural areas. With the entrenchment of a justiciable right to adequate housing in the 2010 Constitution, the study finds that several legislative and policy reforms are underway to improve the housing situation, with efforts being made to draft theLandlord and Tenant Bill 2007, the Housing Bill 2011, the Evictions and Resettlement Guidelines and the Evictions and Resettlement Procedures Bill, 2012, among others. The thesis proposes that these legal reforms must be undertaken within an environment of cooperative and<br /> collaborative strategic partnership involving all sectors of society so as to ensure that the housing concerns as well as interests of all are catered for.</p>

<p>Poverty and inequality are deeply entrenched in Kenya, with the country being one of the most unequal countries in the world. To eradicate poverty and inequality, enhance the achievement of social justice, fast-track human development, as well as to entrench participatory democracy<br /> and a culture of justification in governance, Kenya has, for the first time, entrenched justiciable socio-economic rights (SERs) in its 2010 Constitution. In this thesis, I undertake a critical analysis of the prospects for the implementation and enforcement of the entrenched SERs as well as the probable challenges that Kenya may face in their realisation. In this endeavour, the thesis develops a theoretical and interpretive approach for the realisation of these entrenched SERs. It entails an expansive analysis of the nature, scope, content and extent of the SERs entrenched in the 2010 Kenyan Constitution, and especially the place of international human rights obligations contained in customs and ratified international human rights treaties due to the provisions of the 2010 Constitution which espouse the direct application of international law in Kenya&rsquo / s domestic legal system. It is submitted in this thesis that in order to improve the socio-economic conditions of the poor, vulnerable and marginalised groups in Kenya, there is a need for their socio-economic as well as political empowerment to enable them to effectively take part in societal decision-making in both the public and private spheres with regard to resource (re)distribution. The theory of dialogical constitutionalism, based on the constitutionally entrenched principle of popular participation in governance and public decision-making, is aimed at the realisation of both political and socio-economic empowerment of these groups. Even though the theory of dialogical constitutionalism underscores the importance of litigation in the achievement of the transformative aspirations of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution contained in the entrenched SERs, it acknowledges that litigation is not the panacea of SER enforcement, and that other political and advocacy strategies play an important role in the emancipation of the socio-economically deprived groups in society. The thesis thus advocates a multi-pronged strategy which espouses the equal participation of all sectors of society in a collaborative and cooperative deliberative effort aimed at the full realisation of the entrenched SERs. To accompany the above theoretical framework for the interpretation and implementation of the entrenched SERs, the thesis further proposes a transformative and integrated approach which combines the progressive aspects of the minimum core approachand the reasonableness approach. This is an approach of purposive interpretion which, in the first instance, envisages the courts undertaking a strict and searching scrutiny of the SER implementation framework developed by the political institutions of the State to ensure that sufficient provision has been made for the basic necessities of the most poor and vulnerable groups in society, basically the espousal of a minimum core content approach. The approach entails the requirement that should the SER implementation framework fail to provide this basic minimum to vulnerable groups, and the political institutions do not provide a substantive justification as to the failure, then the courts should find the relevant SER implementation<br /> framework per se unreasonable and thus invalid. However, should the implementation framework provide sufficiently for the basic essentials for vulnerable groups, the courts should then proceed to review it using the reasonableness standards that have been developed by the<br /> South African Constitutional Court. The rationale for this searching analysis is the acknowledgement that if the needs and interests of the most indigent and marginalised in society are not catered for, the entire corpus of rights in the Bill of Rights becomes redundant. The thesis then undertakes a case study of two rights, the right to food and the right to housing, using the theoretical and interpretive approaches developed in the previous chapters of the thesis. On food security, the thesis finds that Kenya is a food insecure country with a declining food production capacity. This is basically due to a lack of subsidy to farmers, global warming leading to intermittent rainfall, lack of investment in sustainable agriculture as well as a fragmented and contradictory legislative and policy agenda. In response to this situation, the thesis proposes the adoption of a livelihoods approach to food security in Kenya, based on the constitutionally entrenched right to food and other supporting rights. This approach advocates the enhancement of the food entitlements of the different sectors of the Kenyan society to ensure their access to adequate and nutritious food, be it through self-production or through the market. On the right to housing, the thesis finds that housing plays a crucial role in ensuring that people are able to have a holistic, dignified and valuable existence. However, Kenya faces a dire housing situation, with the majority of Kenyans, both in rural and urban areas lacking adequate shelter and sanitary conditions, evidenced by the large informal settlements in urban areas and the squatter phenomenon in rural areas. With the entrenchment of a justiciable right to adequate housing in the 2010 Constitution, the study finds that several legislative and policy reforms are underway to improve the housing situation, with efforts being made to draft theLandlord and Tenant Bill 2007, the Housing Bill 2011, the Evictions and Resettlement Guidelines and the Evictions and Resettlement Procedures Bill, 2012, among others. The thesis proposes that these legal reforms must be undertaken within an environment of cooperative and<br /> collaborative strategic partnership involving all sectors of society so as to ensure that the housing concerns as well as interests of all are catered for.</p>

O presente estudo propõe uma reflexão sobre a justiciabilidade dos direitos sociais com o intuito de averiguar como o Poder Judiciário lida e delineia seu campo de atuação frente a esses direitos. Esse não é um tema novo. Muito já se discutiu sobre a questão a juridicidade e exigibilidade dos direitos sociais, bem como sobre a legitimidade do juiz tomar decisões políticas, realocando recursos públicos e elegendo prioridades de investimento. Recentemente, a abordagem sobre a capacidade institucional da revisão judicial de atos ou omissões do Poder Executivo é um tema que vem amadurecendo na academia jurídica brasileira. Essa crítica aponta para as dificuldades institucionais do Poder Judiciário lidar com os conflitos chamados distributivos e centraliza-se no argumento de que o Judiciário não tem as ferramentas necessárias para atuar nesse tipo de conflito, vez que foi estruturado para julgar conflitos individuais, voltados para o passado. Em síntese, a teoria da capacidade institucional sustenta que os tribunais desconsideram a natureza plurilateral dos direitos sociais em suas decisões e julga os conflitos coletivos como se fossem direitos individuais, ferindo o princípio da igualdade. Nesse trabalho pretendemos testar a pertinência da teoria da capacidade institucional por meio da análise de decisões judiciais coletivas (interesses difusos, coletivos ou individuais homogêneos) sobre o direito à educação. Para que a pesquisa sobre justiciabilidade e a capacidade institucional seja viabilizada, percorreremos o seguinte caminho: no primeiro capítulo abordaremos alguns pressupostos sobre a compreensão do direito que será adotada nesse trabalho. Em seguida, faremos um panorama geral dos principais argumentos que debatem a exigibilidade dos direitos sociais, com enfoque na crítica da capacidade institucional. No terceiro capítulo analisaremos as decisões do Poder Judiciário e, por fim, encerraremos o trabalho com algumas conclusões sobre a pertinência da teoria da capacidade institucional. / This essay proposes a discussion on the judicial review and enforcement of social rights, arguing how Brazilian courts understand and establish their boundaries for action on this regard. It is not a new subject of analysis. The enforcement of social rights has been extensively discussed in previous works, along with the legitimate power of courts to take political decisions, reallocating public resources and determining priorities for public expenditures. Such approach - the institutional capacity for judicial review of acts and omissions of the Executive - has been recently maturing in the Brazilian legal academy. In general, it argues that there are institutional constraints for courts to deal with distributive conflicts, and therefore they are not prepared to handle such cases. We intend herein to test this institutional capacity argument by analyzing judicial decisions. Such argument is usually based on the fact that the courts disregard the polycentric nature of social rights (Fuller, 1976), and treats the lawsuit as a bipolar controversy. The dilemma is that the impact of this judgment is not confined to the parties and its consequences may affect thirds, disrespecting the equality principle. We investigate how Brazilian Courts decide on collective conflicts arising from social rights, and how satisfactory such decisions may be considered, in terms of their institutional and juridical coherence. In order to carry out such task, this essay has the following structure: (i) in the first chapter we describe the assumptions on the concept of Law adopted herein; (ii) thereafter, we sketch an overview of the main arguments regarding the enforcement of social rights, emphasizing the institutional capacity argument; (iii) in the third chapter we analyze the decisions of Brazilian Courts; and, finally, (iv) we conclude the essay by testing (whether confirming or not) the arguments of the institutional capacity argument.

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Doctor Legum - LLD / Poverty and inequality are deeply entrenched in Kenya, with the country being one of the mostunequal countries in the world. To eradicate poverty and inequality, enhance the achievement ofsocial justice, fast-track human development, as well as to entrench participatory democracy and a culture of justification in governance, Kenya has, for the first time, entrenched justiciable socio-economic rights (SERs) in its 2010 Constitution. In this thesis, I undertake a criticalanalysis of the prospects for the implementation and enforcement of the entrenched SERs as well as the probable challenges that Kenya may face in their realisation. In this endeavour, the thesis develops a theoretical and interpretive approach for the realisation of these entrenched SERs. It entails an expansive analysis of the nature, scope, content and extent of the SERs entrenched in the 2010 Kenyan Constitution, and especially the place of international human rights obligations contained in customs and ratified international human rights treaties due to the provisions of the 2010 Constitution which espouse the direct application of international law in Kenya’s domestic legal system. It is submitted in this thesis that in order to improve the socio-economic conditions of the poor, vulnerable and marginalised groups in Kenya, there is a need for their socio-economic as well as political empowerment to enable them to effectively take part in societal decision-making in both the public and private spheres with regard to resource (re)distribution. The theory of dialogical constitutionalism, based on the constitutionally entrenched principle of popular participation in governance and public decision-making, is aimed at the realisation of both political and socio-economic empowerment of these groups. Even though the theory of dialogical constitutionalism underscores the importance of litigation in the achievement of the transformative aspirations of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution contained in the entrenched SERs, it acknowledges that litigation is not the panacea of SER enforcement, and that other political and advocacy strategies play an important role in the emancipation of the socio-economically deprived groups in society. The thesis thus advocates a multi-pronged strategy which espouses the equal participation of all sectors of society in a collaborative and cooperative deliberative effort aimed at the full realisation of the entrenched SERs. To accompany the above theoretical framework for the interpretation and implementation of the entrenched SERs, the thesis further proposes a transformative and integrated approach which combines the progressive aspects of the minimum core approach and the reasonableness approach. This is an approach of purposive interpretion which, in the first instance, envisages the courts undertaking a strict and searching scrutiny of the SER implementation framework developed by the political institutions of the State to ensure that sufficient provision has been made for the basic necessities of the most poor and vulnerable groups in society, basically the espousal of a minimum core content approach. The approach entails the requirement that should the SER implementation framework fail to provide this basic minimum to vulnerable groups, and the political institutions do not provide a substantive justification as to the failure, then the courts should find the relevant SER implementation framework per se unreasonable and thus invalid. However, should the implementation framework provide sufficiently for the basic essentials for vulnerable groups, the courts should then proceed to review it using the reasonableness standards that have been developed by the South African Constitutional Court. The rationale for this searching analysis is the acknowledgement that if the needs and interests of the most indigent and marginalised in society are not catered for, the entire corpus of rights in the Bill of Rights becomes redundant. The thesis then undertakes a case study of two rights, the right to food and the right to housing, using the theoretical and interpretive approaches developed in the previous chapters of the thesis. On food security, the thesis finds that Kenya is a food insecure country with a declining food production capacity. This is basically due to a lack of subsidy to farmers, global warming leading to intermittent rainfall, lack of investment in sustainable agriculture as well as a fragmented and contradictory legislative and policy agenda. In response to this situation, the thesis proposes the adoption of a livelihoods approach to food security in Kenya, based on the constitutionally entrenched right to food and other supporting rights. This approach advocates the enhancement of the food entitlements of the different sectors of the Kenyan society to ensure their access to adequate and nutritious food, be it through self-production or through the market. On the right to housing, the thesis finds that housing plays a crucial role in ensuring that people are able to have a holistic, dignified and valuable existence. However, Kenya faces a dire housing situation, with the majority of Kenyans, both in rural and urban areas lacking adequate shelter and sanitary conditions, evidenced by the large informal settlements in urban areas and the squatter phenomenon in rural areas. With the entrenchment of a justiciable right to adequate housing in the 2010 Constitution, the study finds that several legislative and policy reforms are underway to improve the housing situation, with efforts being made to draft the Landlord and Tenant Bill 2007, the Housing Bill 2011, the Evictions and resettlement Guidelines and the Evictions and Resettlement Procedures Bill, 2012, among others. The thesis proposes that these legal reforms must be undertaken within an environment of cooperative and collaborative strategic partnership involving all sectors of society so as to ensure that the housing concerns as well as interests of all are catered for.

This work critically examines the justiciability of the Sudan model of constitutionalising socio-economic rights (SER) and the legal implications of this model. Discusses the following questions: (1) What is the scope and extent of the Sudan Bill of Rights? (2) What is the effect of section 27(3) on section 22 of the Sudan Interim National Constitution? (3) Does the Constitution provide for justiciable SER, if yes, can the South African model of rendering SER justiciable and their standard of review provide a useful guide to the Sudan? / Mini Dissertation (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2008. / A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Law University of Pretoria, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Law (LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa). Prepared under the supervision of Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen of the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Felipe Pires Pereira.pdf: 1326346 bytes, checksum: e64f2ca0eb9e6e6f424af04e31de1923 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-25 / The main objective of this dissertation is to demonstrate that the prediction of housing rights in International Human Rights norms and their explicit inclusion on the list of the social rights of the Brazilian Federal Constitution imposes on states and individuals the obligation to protect and promote this right to socially and economically vulnerable citizens. This theoretical research finds strength in fundamental constitutional principles of urban policy and understanding of the right to housing as a fundamental social right rooted in the principles of human dignity, citizenship, equality, non-discrimination, solidarity, and the review of legal institutions and property ownership in the light of social function. The new approach to access to Justice is the instrumental bond for claiming the right to housing before Government, especially through the exercise of the powers conferred to the Public Defender by the constitutional legislator. The proposed results are the implementation of the fundamental social right to housing through a rights education, mediation and international mechanisms of protection, as well as the bringing of legal individual and collective actions for social protection of this right in a defensive and comprehensive perspective of fundamental rights / O principal objetivo desta dissertação é demonstrar que a previsão do direito à moradia na normativa internacional de Direitos Humanos e a sua inclusão de forma expressa no rol dos direitos sociais da Constituição Federal brasileira impõe aos Estados e aos particulares a obrigação de proteger e promover esse direito aos cidadãos social e economicamente vulneráveis. Essa investigação teórica encontra solidez nos princípios constitucionais fundamentais da política urbana e na compreensão do direito à moradia como direito fundamental social de raízes nos princípios da dignidade da pessoa humana, da cidadania, da igualdade e não-discriminação e da solidariedade, e na releitura dos institutos jurídicos da posse e da propriedade à luz da função social. O novo enfoque de acesso à Justiça consiste no elo instrumental para reivindicação do direito à moradia perante o Poder Público, especialmente pelo exercício das atribuições conferidas à Defensoria Pública pelo legislador constituinte. Os resultados propostos são a efetivação do direito fundamental social à moradia através da educação em direitos, da mediação e dos mecanismos internacionais de proteção, bem como a propositura de ações judiciais individuais e coletivas para justiciabilidade desse direito social na perspectiva defensiva e prestacional dos direitos fundamentais

This  article  has  as  aim  to  reflect  about  the  protection  of economic, social and cultural rights before the regressive measures adopted by governments in Latin America, as well as of the different levels of jurisdictional tutelage that those receive. The document develops the concept of a regressive measure and the scope of the non-regression principle, furthermore, it shows the experience of the Constitutional Courts from Peru and Colombia and the organs of the Interamerican System of Human Rights regarding the protection of social rights. / El presente artículo tiene por propósito plantear una reflexión sobre la protección jurisdiccional que reciben los derechos sociales frente a la adopción de medidas regresivas en Latinoamérica por parte de los Estados, así como de los diversos grados de tutela jurisdiccional que aquellos reciben. El artículo desarrolla la noción de regresividad y los alcances del principio de prohibición de regresividad, así como la experiencia  de las Cortes Constitucionales de Perú y Colombia y de los órganos el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos en torno a la protección de los derechos sociales.