RIGHT TO WORK
19. Applicants argue the violation of their right to work by invoking Article 23(1) of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 6 of the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Article 15 of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Applicants submit that their
suspension from work is an attempt to unfairly deprive them of their freely chosen
employment and violates their right to work.
The Applicants rely on Article 23(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
which provides as follows:
“Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just
favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment”.
This is also provided in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights and Article 15 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights.
20. The Applicant also rely on the treaty body of the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, that is, the Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights explained the States obligations as required by the right to work
in its General Comment No. 18 adopted on 24th November, 2005 at its thirty-fifth
session held in Geneva, from the 7th to the 25th November, 2005 and submits that
the Republic of Ghana has taken steps aimed at violating the Applicants right to
work by the impeachment processes initiated against them
21.
RELIEFS SOUGHT
1. A DECLARATION that every individual within the territorial jurisdiction of the
Republic of Ghana is entitled to the internationally recognized human rights
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; and the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights.
2. A DECLARATION that the Republic of Ghana has an obligation to respect,
protect and fulfil within the territorial jurisdiction of the Republic of Ghana
the internationally recognized human rights of every individual enshrined in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on
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