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In 2015, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) jointly committed to support the Sustainable Development Goals. This milestone illustrates the gradual integration of the principle of sustainable development in MDB activities over the last forty...

Building on the Brunnée and Toope’s theory of interactional law and its use of Fuller’s criteria of legality, this paper argues that the World Bank safeguards, especially their reincarnation through the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF),...

This article focuses on an examination of the substantive content of section 7 of Law No 96/12 of 5th August 1996 on Environmental Management in Cameroon (Law No 96/12) and argues that the incompleteness of section 7 has made it difficult for people...

Recent corruption scandals pivoting around South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma have knocked much of the gloss off of the country’s rosy constitutional face. But it’s democracy is proving to be resilient in the face of severe challenges to...

Since the 1990s, there has been a “global explosion of freedom of information” as new constitutions have enshrined the right to information, legislators have enacted access to information acts, and courts have enforced and expanded individual...

In 2005, the Indian government passed the Right to Information or RTI Act, which is hailed for inaugurating an era of open, accountable and truly postcolonial democracy. This article focuses on how the RTI law is being both implemented and subverted...

Right to Information (RTI) laws are commonly seen as key elements of participatory democracies because they allow citizens to hold public officials accountable for their actions. Nevertheless, these laws can be ambiguous since, while creating...

The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia have been demanding a form of constitutional recognition for many years. Whereas some other indigenous peoples in countries such as New Zealand, the USA and Canada have been partners to a ‘treaty’ at the time...

Since 2012, same-sex marriage has been legal in Brazil. This, however, was accomplished without the participation of any political branch: the only lawmaking actor involved was the Supreme Court. In existing studies on the judicialization of...

In May 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered its first indigenous rights case dealing with the expulsion of the Ogiek from their ancestral lands in the Kenyan Mau forest. The article highlights the judgement’s most...

Looking at self-determination in contemporary Europe, one finds self-determination lumped together with the question of a possible right to remedial secession, either passionately defended or fervently rejected. Lumping self-determination and...

The aim of this article is to place the African Union’s (AU) membership admission approach within the context of the aspiration to deepen regional integration efforts in Africa. Put in more specific terms, to what extent should values such as...