The right to work means that people have a human right to work or engage in productive employment and may not be prevented from doing so. The right to work is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and recognized in international human rights law through its inclusion in...

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...

This article explores why the “right to work” remains underdeveloped through an analysis of its theoretical origins and developmental path. First, the article explores specific content of the right to work, as well as the international legal instruments that generate that content. Second,...