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Implementing and monitoring socioeconomic rights
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2009)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) recently released a report on the implementation and monitoring of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights (UN doc. E/2009/90).
Parliaments and the MDGs
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2010)
During the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit that took place in New York from 20 to 22 September 2010, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations (UN) Millennium Campaign organised a meeting aimed ...
Principles and processes behind promoting awareness of rights for quality maternal care services: a synthesis of stakeholder experiences and implementation factors
(BMC, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Promoting awareness of rights is a value-based process that entails a different way of thinking and
acting, which is at times misunderstood or deemed as aspirational.
METHODS: Guided by the SURE framework, ...
Implementing results-based management systems in Zimbabwe: Context and implications for the public sector
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2012)
The article focuses on the introduction of the new concept of results-based management (RBM) in Zimbabwe’s public sector. The major tenets of RBM are explored and examined against traditional implementation-focused public ...
Implementation of the HiBalance training program for Parkinson’s disease in clinical settings: A feasibility study
(Wiley Open Access, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Translating evidence into practice requires adaptation to facilitate the
implementation of efficacious interventions. A novel highly challenging balance
training program (HiBalance) was found to improve gait, ...
Implementation of Housing Rights in South Africa: Approaches and strategies
(Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2015)
Ensuring access to adequate housing, especially for the poor and disadvantaged in society, including those faced with evictions and displacement, continues to be a global challenge. The situation remains critical in South ...
You are the ''weakest link'' in realising socio-economic rights: Goodbye - Strategies for effective implemention of court orders in South Africa
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
The justiciable place of socio-economic rights in the South African Constitution is being undermined by non-compliance with court orders issued in court processes involving the enforcement of these rights. This has, in ...
Principles and processes behind promoting awareness of rights for quality maternal care services: a synthesis of stakeholder experiences and implementation factors
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Promoting awareness of rights is a value-based process that entails a different way of thinking and
acting, which is at times misunderstood or deemed as aspirational.
METHODS: Guided by the SURE framework, ...
The WHO Tobacco Convention: A New Dawn in the Implementation of International Health Instrument? Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”
(International Journal of Health Policy Management, 2018)
The Tobacco Convention was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003. Nikogosian and Kickbusch examine the five potential impacts of the Tobacco Convention and its Protocol on public health. These include the ...
Persistent problems in African integration and peace-keeping
(Sabinet, 2018)
African economic integration and peacekeeping constitute respectively the
largest institutionalization, and the largest operationalization, of the African
Union (AU) and its sub-regional organisations. The number of ...