Empowering the Poor Through Human Rights Litigation

Year of publication
2011
Author(s)
Maritza Formisano Prada
Publisher(s)
UNESCO
Resource type

Chapter two (p.47-56) is dedicated exclusively to the clarification of justiciability and the challenges of justiciability as a tool for social transformation and inclusion of the most vulnerable. It presents ‘justiciability’ as one of the steps of a holistic strategy to overcome poverty. It defends the role of judges as guarantors of rights and freedoms of the most invisible members of society.