ADAPTED fellow Irene Among-Lutz and Markus Kaltenborn, member of the IEE directory board, have published a new research article in the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. The article titled "The African Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security: Prospects for Comprehensive Social Protection Systems" reviews  the potential contribution of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security to the establishment of comprehensive social protection systems.

In their article, Irene Among-Lutz and Markus Kaltenborn examine the relatively new Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security and find that the progressive realisation of comprehensive social protection systems as recommended by the Protocol will depend upon the dominant ideologies of member states towards state-led social protection, the financial autonomy of the member states, the political support of the Protocol by the relevant national actors, the legal assessment of the Protocol by regional and national courts and – not least – upon the capacities of civil society for legal mobilisation.

Among-Lutz, Irene and Kaltenborn, Markus (2026): The African Protocol on the Rights of Citizens to Social Protection and Social Security: Prospects for Comprehensive Social Protection Systems. African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 33(4): https://doi.org/10.3366/ajicl.2025.0545.