Elsabe Boshoff

• Boshoff, Elsabe (2024). The prospects and challenges of litigating climate change before the African Regional Human Rights bodies. I Bouwer, Kim; Etemire, Uzuazo; Field, Tracy-Lynn & Jegede, Ademola Oluborode (Red.), Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529228953. s. 125–152. doi: 10.51952/9781529228977.ch006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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), s. 328–361. doi: 10.17159/1996-2096/2022/v22n2a1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Boshoff, Elsabe & Toit, Louise Du (2021). Transitional Justice, Sexual Violence, and Women’s Status in Africa. I Uchendu, Egodi & Edeagu, Ngozi (Red.), Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies. Lexington Books. ISSN 9781793642042. s. 241–256. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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), s. 3–11. doi: 10.1177/09240519241244562. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. I Jegede, Ademola Oluborode & Adejonwo, Oluwatoyin (Red.), Climate change justice and human rights: An African perspective. Pretoria University Law Press (PULP). ISSN 9781776411733. s. 13–34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Boshoff, Elsabe (2021). Critical reflections on the concept of ‘sustainable development’ in Aspiration 1 of Agenda 2063. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• 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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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