The Article examines the rights to work and social security under the African human rights system and calls on all duty-bearers to adopt concrete and positive measures for their realization. It also calls on relevant judicial and quasi-judicial human rights institutions to interpret human rights...

In Article 25 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations recognized in 1948 the basic human right to “security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond ... control.” This paper...