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8 Law Democracy & Dev. vii (2004)

handle is hein.journals/laacydev8 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial The first six papers in this number of the Law, Democracy and Development are a selection from papers presented at an inter-university colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Law of the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town on 13 to 15 August 2003. A further two selected papers will be published in the next (2004(2)) issue of this Journal The colloquium, titled The Aix-UWC Colloquium on the Regional Realisation of Socio-economic Rights: A European and Southern African Perspective, represented the culmination of a similarly named joint research project between two teams of researchers from the Faculties of Law of the Universities of the Western Cape (South Africa) and Paul Cezanne (France). The project coordinators, who are also the editors of this issue, were Tobias van Reenen (Western Cape) and Jean-Yves Ch&ot (Paul Cezanne). The project coordinators wish to extend their sincere gratitude to the South African National Research Foundation and the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs, National Education and Higher Education and Research for the funding of the project. The editors also wish to extend their sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Mellon Foundation for the financial assistance which enabled Tobias van Reenen to arrange free time from lecturing duties in order to complete the editing of the manuscripts for this number of the journal. An introduction to the contents of the reports published in this special issue can be organized around five main points. Firstly the colloquium has accepted, without consultation nor true prior harmonization on the part of the editors, a broad understanding of the concept of fundamental social rights in relation to the contemporary conception generally ascribed to these rights. Fundamental social rights firstly include the rights of workers (social liberties), then rights linked to the principle of non-discrimination in relation to sex, opinion, age, sexual orientation, etc. and, finally social rights in a stricter sense, a right to housing, a right to energy, the prohibition of child labour, rights to social security and social welfare, health protection and other rights of this nature. This broad conception of the notion of fundamental social rights is explained by a new and emerging conception of social rights seen as personal and justiciable in the same way as civil rights are. Secondly a vast majority of the reports have presented the question of protection of social rights in the context of economic globalization and the development of free trade in the world. Globalisation and free trade create new challenges for social rights; they call for a search for new methods of regulation. The paradox lies in the fact that the protection of workers and the regulation of services of general economic interest call for, in this context, a genuine international response while States persist in demanding

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