When NGOs Fulfill State Obligations How NGO Laws in Africa Can Interfere with Social Rights of Beneficaries

• Main Author: Kahssay, Jihan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2020
• Series: Studien aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik
• Subjects: Foreign Aid; social policy; social rights; nongovernmental organizations; ICESCR; NGO; Africa; human rights; civil society; social law
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Across parts of Africa, states have been restricting the operations, funding and speech of NGOs. Many have therefore expressed their concern that the cornerstones of a free civil society-the rights to free association and free speech-are under attack. However, another concern that warrants greater a...