Elsabe Boshoff

Doctoral Research Fellow - Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
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Academic interests and background

Elsabé Boshoff is a Doctoral Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR). Her primary research interests include human rights issues related to the environment, sustainable development, extractive industries and business and human rights, with a primary focus on the African context. She has a further interest in transitional justice and human rights in conflict situations.

Her PhD project focuses on the opportunities and pitfalls for operationalising the right to development in the African human rights system as a right to sustainable development, particularly in the context of the extractive industries.

Before joining the NCHR, Elsabé worked with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights between 2017 and 2020. She holds an LL.M in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (cum laude) from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and BA and LLB degrees from Stellenbosch University.

Teaching

Selected lectures and/or seminars in the following programmes:

  • HUMR5702 Human Rights and Sustainable Development
  • HUMR5191 Human Rights Methodology: Research, Analysis and Thesis
  • HUMR5132 Human Rights Law in Context
  • HUMR 5502 Dealing with Diversity: Human Rights Approaches to Ethnic Conflict
  • JUR1730/JUS5730 International Humanitarian Law
  • ISSJF4711 Human Rights (UiO International Summer School)

 

Publications

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.

O Owiso, E Boshoff, T Mamhare & AZ Tsighe ‘The international response to the Darfur and South Sudan crises’ (2017) 1 Global Campus Human Rights Journal 287-314.

  • 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.
  • Boshoff, Elsabe & Du Toit, Louise (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.
  • 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

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  • 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.
  • Boshoff, Elsabe (2021). Critical reflections on the concept of ‘sustainable development’ in Aspiration 1 of Agenda 2063.
  • 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.

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