Socio-economic Rights and Positive Duties
Sandra Fredman
This chapter applies the approach developed in this book to familiar topics of socio-economic rights, focussing on housing, education, and welfare, and drawing on comparative experience in selected jurisdictions. In each case, it considers how the infusion of values of positive freedom, solidarity, and equality opens up the possibility of recognizing positive duties even in relation to civil and political rights. The interaction between positive and negative duties is then considered: for example, the duty not to evict unlawfully is closely related to a duty to provide housing in the context of severe housing shortages, as in South Africa or India. The chapter then examines how the content of the positive duty can be ascertained; and the role of the minimum core. The role of courts in insisting on accountability, equality of participation and enhanced deliberative democracy is then evaluated. Finally, non-judicial compliance mechanisms are considered.
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