ABSTRACT
The second chapter explores the contents and scope of socio-economic rights and the current debate around the suitability and possibility of addressing economic and social rights violations in transitional justice programmes, particularly focusing on labour rights. It then seeks to refute those concerns by outlining that State failures to respect and protect them can be relatively straightforward to address within the existing transitional justice toolbox. Consequently, this chapter explores how socio-economic rights can be potentially addressed by transitional justice mechanisms and it provides some examples of how it has already been done in certain transitional justice processes.
