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Part II: Economic Rights
Economic activity represents one of the major factors impacting
on human rights either in the affirmative or in the negative.
States accordingly develop considerable interest in keeping this
activity under control by putting in place sufficient guarantees in
protection of economic human rights believed to be the basis for
decent human living and means of subsistence. Among the most
protected of these rights according to the African Charter of
Human and Peoples' Rights are rights to property (Article 14),
to labor (Article 15), to wealth (Article 21) and to development
(Article 22).
In fulfillment of its international commitments as party to this
Charter, the Jamhirya undertook to adopt an array of legal and
practical procedures for the effectuation of these rights and
freedoms within the domestic legal system as follows:
First: Legal Procedures
Besides basic laws providing for the protection of these rights,
the Libyan legislator has been enacting in commensurate with
the development and requirements of the international
community, thus his legislation were mostly up-to-date
especially during 2008 – 2010 and running parallel with these
prerequisites as part of the transformation of the Libyan
community into one that is in control of its power and wealth
which represents the best guarantor of its rights:
1- Property Right: is a sacred right guaranteed for all sons of
the community. It is inviolable unless for public interest and
necessarily with fair compensation in accordance with
provisions of effective laws. Article (12) of the Great Green
Human Rights Charter in the era of the masses confirmed
protection of property right, reading: "The sons of the mass
society are free from feudalism. Landholding is not exclusive.
Everyone has the right to exploit land as usufructuary in terms
of occupancy, agro-business and pastoral activity during lifetime