The Author examines the right to an adequate standard of living - as a subset of the right to life, dignity, and the pursuit of happiness - and assesses the extent of its realization in Africa. The paper assumes the normativity of socio-economic rights - quite apart from debates on their...

En la postmodernidad, las personas que transitan la vejez con frecuencia son relegadas por la sociedad a ámbitos de olvido, indiferencia, e incluso a la violencia; que afectan su calidad de vida. Como afirma Norberto Bobbio (1997), tal vez porque el curso histórico es cada vez más acelerado; o...

This paper examines the relationship between the individual conception in economics and the justification of economic rights as human rights. It briefly describes the nature of economic rights, and argues that the Homo economicus conception constitutes a barrier to justifying them. The paper...

How to address human rights is a forever important issue of political economics. In expanding that view, it is important to know that whether the decision has a firm ground. We humans say that every decision should be addressed in the rational point view of human rights. And to support that,...