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
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Akintayo, Akinola Ebunolu
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Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape
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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).
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Human rights, Neo-liberalism, Socio-economic rights, Deregulation, Nigeria
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Akintayo, AE 2014, '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', ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 5-9.