Assessing Baxi’s Thesis on the Emergence of a Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence from Nigerian Labour-Led Struggles

Authors

Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Osgoode Hall Law School of York UniversityFollow

Document Type

Commentary

Publication Date

2007

Source Publication

Law, Social Justice and Global Development. Issue 10 (2007), p. 1-16.

Keywords

Baxi; Bretton Woods Institutions; human rights; Neoliberal Socio-Economic Reforms; Nigerian Labour Movements; resistance

Abstract

The objective of the article is to assess some of the sub-claims that emerge from Baxi’s thesis on an emergent trade-related market-friendly human rights paradigm in the light of the available evidence regarding the intense contestations and confrontations that have occurred between Nigeria’s politically and economically transitional Obasanjo regime and a local labour-led coalition. The piece sets out to ascertain the contextual and localised validity of these ‘Baxian’ sub-claims, within the wider context of the government vs. labour confrontations in Nigeria during the neo-liberal socio-economic reforms undertaken in that country between 1999 and 2005.

Repository Citation

Okafor, Obiora Chinedu "Assessing Baxi’s Thesis on the Emergence of a Trade-Related Market-Friendly Human Rights Paradigm: Recent Evidence from Nigerian Labour-Led Struggles." Law, Social Justice and Global Development. 10 (2007): 1-16.