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health policy are non-justiciable political questions. The ruling was a significant blow to advocates for the judicial enforcement of social and economic rights and proponents of public interest litigation ... of Uganda. The role the political question doctrine will play in the Supreme Court's treatment of the case is anyone's guess. However, regardless of the ultimate outcome, the decision of the
deep animosity and suspicion, which heighten during election periods. This is so largely because individuals hailing from a few ethnic communities dominated the political structures and economic ... the 2010 Kenyan Constitution by creating 47 counties, sub-national territorial and political units, has enhanced the opportunities for the political inclusion of hitherto excluded communities. Moreover
Marian Zdziechowski has long been a big absentee in Polish humanities, even though he played a significant role in the intellectual life of the half of the century rich in cultural and political ... to openly look at man, religion, history and philosophy, hence the possibility to acquaint oneself even with just a small part of his correspondence may prove extremely valuable. Cieszkowski junior’s
organisations or organised social movements, while facing economic constraints, complicated legal and political processes, and being bound to dismal structural and spatial conditions. I argue that individual ... settlements, who have no, or limited, access to public interest litigation and are faced with dealing with complicated legal and political processes to participate in decisions affecting their material
majority judgment in Maseko even more interesting is the fact that the impugned pieces of legislation were utilised for political purposes, namely to, suppress dissenting voices. In the light of an ... established pattern of political clampdown on both dissenting voices and the judiciary, such a bold and progressive move is indeed commendable. The case marked the first time that the Swaziland courts
sustainable levels of development, improve the country's democratic governance, sustain political stability, and promote diversity.5 This article focuses on Uganda's quest to use decentralisation to promote the ... accommodation of diversity. It is a critical goal as the neglect or even suppression of diversity, be it ethnic, cultural or religious, can be linked to poverty, political despondency, alienation, and civil
claims that it targets the socio-political system of old Poland that violated the balance of social forces and lead to the demise of ethos, which in turn resulted in the destruction of individual heroes
with politics and political thinking. Concrete problems of historiography which Czartoryski faced could be clearly seen, particularly in his non-scholarly goal of his book: to show the differences in the
In a 1936 text dedicated to Józef Wittlin’s novel Jerzy Stempowski tries to position it within the context of the contemporary political, social and cultural events. He also analyses the artistic
political orientation, and the groups we are likely to associate with. Thus, the kind of socio-economic philosophy one is probably to adopt would be dependent on which side of the fence one happens to be ... focused problems, such as earnings.33 However, the major factor in South Africa seems to be that the socio-economic needs of a large number of citizens remain unsatisfied notwithstanding political change.34
and the sacrum time. The interpretation of the motto, which is taken from a seventeenth- -century song by Wespazjan Kochowski, emphasizes spatial and at the same time deeply symbolic and political
the institutional capacity to do so.66 The Court held that the judiciary is not institutionally equipped to make the wide-ranging factual and political enquiries necessary for determining what the ... rights in the Bill of Rights. This principle applies in fields, such as, political science, management and government, and is an organising principle of decentralisation which states that a societal matter
The result was the adoption of two Covenants: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)71 and the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR),72 both of ... of the ILO and signatories to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). 36 Rajagopal B
process whereby political actors in several distinct national settings are persuaded to shift their loyalties, expectations and political activities toward a new centre, whose institutions possess or demand ... jurisdiction over pre-existing national states. The end result of a process of political integration is a new political community, superimposed over the preexisting ones.1 Regional integration has manifested
women's experience of gross inequality in their socio-economic and political lives, such as access to justice are addressed to ensure the realisation of women's citizenship. The principles and values of ... constitutional arrangements fail to guarantee civil, political, social and economic rights.5 Although the roles of women in society are changing,6 nevertheless the majority are still burdened with the adverse
men, because they carry more burden in the social, political, legal and cultural spheres.6 There are various challenges that compromise their right to development such as their vulnerability which makes ... political participation, notwithstanding the reforms that have been adopted following the attainment of democracy in 1994. Hence the focus is more on the two institutions (SAHRC and CGE) to build South
role of other democratic institutions in ensuring that issues of human rights remain the central focus of political discourse in every society.15Over the years the United Nations has made concerted ... and promoting human rights goes deeper than its mere establishment. It should be noted that for the ZHRC to effectively discharge its functions, there are a number of factors, such as, legal, political
political influence to demand fair international economic relations,2 these institutions have been beset by multiple challenges that have impaired their effectiveness. Some of the challenges include poor ... governments have that civil society groups are little more than political agents bent on wrestling power from them.35 This perception is rooted in the adversarial relationship that exists between the two sides
supervising municipalities led by different political parties. The UMvoti Local Municipality was led by the IFP whereas both the UMgungundlovu District Municipality and the provincial government of KwaZulu ... Democratic Alliance Western Cape case the disciplinary action against Mr Carelse had not been instituted by the municipality, but by the DA, Mr Carelse's political party. For this reason, the Court found in
under the system of traditional authority. Ubuntu is proclaimed as an overarching African philosophy which encapsulates the collective respect for all rights for all people without distinction.Against ... traditional leadership to "embody the preservation of culture, traditions and customs"18 in the promotion of the philosophy of ubuntu. They require the institution of traditional leadership to facilitate the
