A good thing from Nazareth? Stemming the tide of neo-liberalism against socio-economic rights : lessons from the Nigerian case of Bamidele Aturu v Minister of Petroleum Resources and Others

Abstract

During the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1998, Baxi warned that contemporary human rights is being supplanted by ‘…a trade-related, market-friendly, human rights paradigm’ (Baxi 1998: 125 at 163). According to him, the new paradigm requires states to pursue the ‘three Ds’ of globalisation (deregulation, de-nationalisation and disinvestment), in order to free as much space as possible for global capital (Baxi 1998: 125 at 164).