Benue State University, Makurdi

An Examination of the Concept of Obligation as it Pertains to Socio-Economic Rights

Nsidibe Umoh*

Abstract

Concerted efforts and frantic attempts to categorise relation into rights and duties with the forlorn concession that such compartmentalistation is capable of providing remedy for an examination of the most timorous legal discourses have often inhibited a full comprehension of and panacea to legal issues. Correlative duties or obligation on the part of right holders enunciates human rights in the first cadre of jural relations. The tenor of this articles is “An Examination of the Concept of Obligation as it Pertains to Socio-economic Rights.” This articles reveals that socio-economic rights do not have as their only or primary remedy, the provision of a commodity on demand. Rather, they require the creation of an environment and processes which enable individuals and communities to realise their rights. This article recommends that rights should be integratively construed because doing so will lead to a society where men and women are equally able to maximisetheir potentials because classifying States’ obligation for instance into “negative” and “positive,” is at most a difference devoid of distinction.

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