The Human Right to Health and Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thierry Ngosso, Jennifer Heaven Mike (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XVII, 443 Seiten

2025
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-01164-0 (ISBN)

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This philosophically and legally grounded volume explores the human right to health in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on corporate responsibility. Combining practical insights with thorough scholarship, it analyzes the universal legal basis of the right, the responsibilities it entails, and how it is applied within specific African contexts. Health has long been recognized as a fundamental human right, protected by Article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 12 of the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. While the obligation of states to uphold this right is clear, the extent of corporate responsibility, legally and in stakeholder expectations, remains unclear. This book fills that gap by advocating for a strategic and context-aware approach to corporate health obligations in Africa. It emphasizes that such responsibilities should stand apart from the capacity or political will of states to fulfill their own human rights commitments. The book gathers contributors from diverse countries and disciplines, such as law, political science, ethics, and medicine. It examines whether, and how, corporations, businesses, and other private entities can be held to binding human rights duties, especially concerning the right to health. It also discusses how these duties might be implemented in African settings through policies, regulations, public health programs, and corporate accountability systems. A distinctive feature of the book is its engagement with African intellectual traditions to strengthen the normative concept of corporate responsibility. It also emphasizes the importance of shared responsibility between public and private actors in addressing structural health challenges on the continent. The Human Right to Health and Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa is a timely academic and research resource for scholars and students in law, philosophy, ethics, business, public health, and the social sciences. It is also of interest to policymakers, NGOs, and human rights advocates seeking to align corporate conduct with fundamental human rights in African settings.

Thierry Ngosso is a Cameroonian political philosopher. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Louvain (2015). Affiliated with the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC), the University of Maroua (UMa) in Cameroon, and the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland, his academic work focuses on applied ethics, corporate responsibility, and comparative political theory. He is particularly interested in global justice and, more specifically, in three contemporary and interconnected issues in this field: climate change, human rights, especially the human right to health, and migration. Ngosso manages the HSG Competence Center for African Research and the UCAC Ethics and Public Policy Laboratory he founded in 2019. Former Berggruen Fellow at the Harvard Lilly and Safra Center for Ethics (2018-2019) and former Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow (2019-2023) researching African perspectives of the Human Right to Health, Ngosso will be Humboldt Fellow (2025-2027) and focus on the corporate political climate responsibility in decarbonization contexts.

Jennifer Heaven Mike is currently a Global Studies Scholar and an Assistant Professor of Women s Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGGS) at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA. She holds the Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies position at DePauw University. Mike is also an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa. Mike further serves as the Director of AUN s Centre for Governance, Human Rights and Development (CGDHR) and the Director of the Intersessional (Summer Program) at AUN. She has also worked as the HoD (Chair) of the Department of Public and International Law (PIL). Mike previously worked as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA) with the University of Exeter.

Health Rights and Corporate Responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction.- Part I. Conceptualization and Justifications.- 1. Realizing Health as a Human Right in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethical and Legal Normative Analysis.- 2. African Concept of Health as Human Right: A Justification.- 3. Claim Rights and Liberty Rights: The Problem of the Right to Health in Modern Political Theory.- 4. Global Health and Epistemic Justice: Understanding the Political Subalternization of Traditional Medicines in the Face of the COVID 19 Pandemic in Cameroon.- 5. Social Representations of health and the Right to Health in Cameroon: An Exploratory Analysis.- 6. Global Health and Epistemic Justice: Understanding the Political Subalternization of Traditional Medicines During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cameroon.- Part II. Foundations and Ethics.- 7. The Corporate Responsibility to Respect the Human Right to Health.- 8. Àlàáfíà : Holistic Health from Yoruba Perspective and Ethical Foundation For The Promotion Of Human Rights.- 9. Codification and Implementation Of The Right To Health In Agro-Industrial Companies In An African Context: Analysis Of Western & Modernity & Versus Traditional Values.- Part III. Law and Policy.- 10. Appraising the Corporate Tyranny of Indiscriminate Installation Of Mast By Telecommunication Companies And Its Implication On The Right To Quality Health Of Nigerians.- 11. China s Debt and Development Investments: Implications for Health and other Human Rights on the Continent.- 12. Overcoming the Weakness of African States Legal Framework on the Human Right to Health: A Case for a Legal Mandate in Domestic and International Law.- 13. The Responsibility of Insurance Corporations in the CIMA Region Regarding the Human Right to Health: The Case of Health Coverage in Mali.- 14. The Enforcement of the Right to Health Against Business Corporations in Nigeria.- 15. Right to Health and Corporate Responsibility of Transnational Oil Corporations in Nigeria: Unveiling the UNGPs on Responsibility to Respect.- 16. The Role of Non-State Actors in The Realization of the Human Right to Health in South Africa.- Part IV. Applications and Case Studies.- 17. Corporate Responsibility For High-Cost Care For Common Diseases: Example Of Dialysis In Sub-Saharan Africa..- 18. Rights to Health and Cameroon's Responsible Business Conduct: Case of Orange Cameroon.- 19. The Corporate Responsibility To Respect The Human Right To Health In Africa: Case Study Of The Nigerian Petroleum Industry.- 20. The Responsibility Of Pharmaceutical Industries In The WAEMU Area: The Example Of Mali.- 21. Health Injustices In Chad s Soil Industry.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.01.2026
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 443 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
Schlagworte	African Concept of Health as a Human Right • Corporate responsibility for high-cost care of common diseases • Corporate responsibility, privatization & equal access to health • Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa • do no harm principle • Duties and responsibilities for public health • Enhancing the protection of health rights in Africa • Ethical foundation for the promotion of human rights • Ethical Obligation of Corporations to Respect Right to Health • Health care in the African region • Health Coverage of Insurance Companies in CIMA Space • Health injustices in Africa • International organizations for health rights • Legal & conceptual foundation of human right to health in Africa • Liberty rights, claim rights, and modern political theory • Non-State Actors in the Realization of Human Right to Health • Pharmaceutical Companies and Iatrogenic Diseases • Remedy for health rights impacts • Responsibility of Pharmaceutical Industries in UEMOA space • Transnational Oil Corporations
ISBN-10	3-032-01164-7 / 3032011647
ISBN-13	978-3-032-01164-0 / 9783032011640
Zustand	Neuware