The Role of Ethiopia Federal Supreme Cassation Bench in the Enfocment of Socio-Economic Rights
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2024-09-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia recognizes all level of human rights and guaranteed. This constitution imposes a duty on the judiciary to enforcement and protects all human rights is in line of the international human right practice and laws. The Federal Supreme Court Cassation Division Bench as apex court and binding decision maker on the national litigation in its more than 15 years’ experience rarely applied the FDRE Constitution previsions that declared on the socio-economic rights and the international human right instruments particularly human right laws directly connected with the socio-economic rights.
One of the root causes for the cassation to enforce socio-economic rights is the denying of constitutional review power. This article contends that legal and jurist limitation in the cassation bench contributes to the unacceptably low enforcement of socio-economic rights. The author supports his position and show the legal and the practical gaps and challenges based on the cassations’ judgments. By doing this the author put forward recommendations for constitutional and legal reform and other relevant solutions. The author has also consulted the laws and cases of other countries and relevant literature with a view to identifying normative standards and practices from which Ethiopia could lesson
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Socio-economic rights, Enforcement, cassation