This article examines the place of economic, social, and cultural rights in Nepal's ongoing constitution-drafting process, and analyses the way that ESC rights have (and have not) been protected in its earlier constitutions. Further, the article considers the role that ESC rights and their...

This Report represents the culmination of a year-long project undertaken by the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law to study women’s access to adequate housing in urban Tanzania and their experiences of informal settlements in light of...

Up to one quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be landless, including 200 million people living in rural areas. For many of these people, the condition of landlessness threatens the enjoyment of a number of fundamental human rights. Access to land is important for development and...