The Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights in Ethiopia 

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Mesenbet Assefa Tadeg

Addis Ababa University School of Law; Addis Ababa University School of Law

Date Written: October 09, 2022

Abstract

The foundations of international and national human rights system was founded on the vision to create a world in which freedom from fear and want can be realized. The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948 was monumental, not only

by creating the foundations of international human rights law, but more importantly by the fact that it gave equal focus to the realization of civil and political rights as well as socio-economic rights. The ambition of the HDHR to create a cosmopolitan world in which there will not be freedom from fear and want, and the realization of all human rights including civil and political and socio-economic rights is ensured was premised on the universality, interdependence and indivisibility of all human rights. The current position of international human rights law is also that all human rights including civil and political, as well socio-economic rights are indivisible, interdependent and mutually reinforcing and as such both categories of rights should be given legal protection and application equally.

 . 3 Committee on ESCR on the Nature of State Parties Obligations.

Suggested Citation

Tadeg, Mesenbet Assefa and Tadeg, Mesenbet Assefa, The Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights in Ethiopia  (October 09, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4859118 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4859118

Mesenbet Assefa Tadeg (Contact Author)

Addis Ababa University School of Law ( email )

Ethiopia

Addis Ababa University School of Law ( email )

Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

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