Learning from others: An insight into the experiences in the enforcement of ESC rights in comparative foreign and international law jurisdictions

Abstract

This paper was originally presented at the Economic Social and Cultural Rights Symposium held on the 17th of April 2015 and was organised by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Law Students Association. The purpose of this paper is to provide some ideas around the lessons which Zimbabwean courts can draw from South Africa and India as comparative foreign jurisdictions as well as international law, in order to enforce and or implement the ESC rights guaranteed under the new Constitution of Zimbabwe.