A Second Look at the South African Human Rights Commission, Access to Information, and the Promotion of Socioeconomic Rights

This article takes a "second look" at the place of the South African Human Rights Commission and its role in the promotion of socioeconomic rights through monitoring. It argues that a "first look" at understanding drew heavily on international concepts of monitoring, including th...

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Published inHuman rights quarterly Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 539 - 561
Main Author Klaaren, Jonathan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.05.2005
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Access to information
Administrative law
Commissions
Community participation
Constitutional courts
Development
Governance
Human Rights
Human rights violations
Information
Information access
Opacity
Participation
Political action committees
Respect
Social change
Social Inequality
Social Justice
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic Status
Socioeconomics
South Africa
Transparency
Treaties
South Africa
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Summary:This article takes a "second look" at the place of the South African Human Rights Commission and its role in the promotion of socioeconomic rights through monitoring. It argues that a "first look" at understanding drew heavily on international concepts of monitoring, including those of violations and progressive realization. These concepts have proven to be of limited usefulness in a national context where the justiciability of socioeconomic rights has been achieved. This "second look" proposes an alternative model of national monitoring of socioeconomic rights, based on greater participation, transparency, and a constitutional right of access to information.
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ISSN:0275-0392
1085-794X
1085-794X
DOI:10.1353/hrq.2005.0021