Elsabe Boshoff

M Addaney, MG Nyarko & E Boshoff (eds.) Governance, Human Rights, and Political Transformation in Africa, (2019) Palgrave MacMillan ISBN 978-3-030-27049-0.

E Boshoff & L du Toit ‘Transitional Justice, Sexual Violence and Women’s Status in Africa’ in E Uchendu & N Edeagu (eds.) Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies (2021) Lexington Books, 241-256, ISBN 978-1-7936-4204-2.

E Boshoff ‘Women’s Environmental Human Rights in Africa with Reflections on Key Provisions of the Maputo Protocol’ in M Addaney & AO Jegede (eds.) Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law (2020) Palgrave Macmillan, 107-136 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46523-0.

E Boshoff & S Getaneh ‘Children’s right to sustainable development under the African human rights framework’ (2019) 3 African Human Rights Yearbook 119-141 (ISSN: 2523-1367).

M Addaney, MG Nyarko & E Boshoff ‘Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources during Armed Conflicts in Africa’ (2019) 3 Chinese Journal of Environmental Law 85–115 https://doi.org/10.1163/24686042-12340036.

M Addaney, E Boshoff & MG Nyarko ‘Protection of Environmental Assets in Urban Africa: Toward a Rights-Based Approach to Environmental Protection at the Domestic Level’ (June 2018) Australian Journal of Human Rights https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2018.1480235.

E Boshoff ‘Protecting the African child in a changing climate: are our existing safeguards adequate?’ (2017) 1 African Human Rights Yearbook 23-40.

M Addaney, E Boshoff & B Olutola ‘The Climate Change and Human Rights Nexus in Africa’ (2017) 9 (3) Amsterdam Law Review 5-28.

• Boshoff, Elsabe (2024). The prospects and challenges of litigating climate change before the African Regional Human Rights bodies. In Bouwer, Kim; Etemire, Uzuazo; Field, Tracy-Lynn & Jegede, Ademola Oluborode (Ed.), Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529228953. p. 125–152. doi: 10.51952/9781529228977.ch006. Full text in Research Archive
• Boshoff, Elsabe & Damtew, Samrawit Getaneh (2022). The potential of litigating children’s rights in the climate crisis before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. African Human Rights Law Journal. ISSN 1996-2096. 22(2), p. 328–361. doi: 10.17159/1996-2096/2022/v22n2a1. Full text in Research Archive
• Boshoff, Elsabe & Toit, Louise Du (2021). Transitional Justice, Sexual Violence, and Women’s Status in Africa. In Uchendu, Egodi & Edeagu, Ngozi (Ed.), Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies. Lexington Books. ISSN 9781793642042. p. 241–256. Full text in Research Archive
• Boshoff, Elsabe (2021). Rethinking the premises underlying the right to development in African human rights jurisprudence. Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. ISSN 2050-0386. doi: 10.1111/reel.12423. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The current rate of planetary destruction, which is grounded in an understanding of development as economic growth based on environmental exploitation, has catastrophic consequences for organized human existence. The African human rights system, through the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Charter), is one of the few international legal systems which provides for an enforceable right to development and to a healthy environment. This article argues that the dichotomy set up between the right to development and the right to a healthy environment is ultimately false, because an understanding of development which does not take account of the environmental aspects is untenable in the long run. It is argued that the African Charter and its interpretation by the African Commission and the African Court have resulted in the establishment of important principles towards a revised understanding of development, not based on economic considerations, but rather as human well-being (physical, mental, emotional and social considerations) within a healthy environment. It is further argued that important principles in African environmental ethics should be recognized in interpreting the right to development, which require that development takes place with the necessary regard and reverence for the environment.

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• Boshoff, Elsabe & Arief, Dinie Suryadini Mukti (2024). Mapping the frontiers of sustainable development and human rights as a field of enquiry. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR). ISSN 0924-0519. 42(1), p. 3–11. doi: 10.1177/09240519241244562. Full text in Research Archive
• Boshoff, Elsabe (2022). The role of human rights soft law instruments in clarifying the obligations of fossil fuel companies for climate change interventions in Africa. In Jegede, Ademola Oluborode & Adejonwo, Oluwatoyin (Ed.), Climate change justice and human rights: An African perspective. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP). ISSN 9781776411733. p. 13–34. Full text in Research Archive
• Boshoff, Elsabe (2021). Critical reflections on the concept of ‘sustainable development’ in Aspiration 1 of Agenda 2063. Full text in Research Archive
• Boshoff, Elsabe & Getaneh, Samrawit (2021). The potential of litigating children’s rights in the climate crisis before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Full text in Research Archive

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