The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably the founding document of the human rights movement, fully embraces economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, within its text. However, for most of the fifty years since the Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the focus of the international community has been on civil and political rights. This focus has slowly shifted over the past two decades. Recent international human rights treaties—such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women—grant equal importance to protecting and advancing nonpolitical rights.
In this collection of essays, Isfahan Merali, Valerie Oosterveld, and a team of human rights scholars and activists call for the reintegration of economic, social, and cultural rights into the human rights agenda. The essays are divided into three sections. First the contributors examine traditional conceptualizations of human rights that made their categorization possible and suggest a more holistic rights framework that would dissolve such boundaries. In the second section they discuss how an integrated approach actually produces a more meaningful analysis of individual economic, social, and cultural rights. Finally, the contributors consider how these rights can be monitored and enforced, identifying ways international human rights agencies, NGOs, and states can promote them in the twenty-first century.
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Isfahan Merali is Legal Counsel of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Valerie Oosterveld is a Legal Officer with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
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By its nature as a pronouncement of high normative principles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) did not address the hard questions related to the creation of institutions to begin the process of bridging the gap between statement of ideals and practical realization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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By its nature as a pronouncement of high normative principles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) did not address the hard questions related to the creation of institutions to begin the process of bridging the gap between statement of ideals and practical realization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
housing rights campaigns, structural indivisibility, housing rights movement, human rights treaty order, natural resource development activity, advancing safe motherhood, national human rights institutions, human rights treaty system, unrecognized villages, core labor rights, human rights treaty bodies, having financial responsibility, interlocutory relief, customary land tenure, market reformers, child support guidelines, international labor rights, ombudsman institutions, cultural rights, human rights ombudsman, core labor standards, obligations under the covenant, human rights system, human rights treaties, normative focus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, Toledo District, East Jerusalem, American Declaration, Universal Declaration, South Africa, Inter-American Commission, General Assembly, Rights of the Child, Divorce Act, Supreme Court of Belize, United States, World Bank, Cold War, State of Israel, American Convention, Family Law Act, Ministry of Natural Resources, Oxfam International, Children's Convention, European Convention, Proposed Declaration, Senate Standing Committee, State of Belize, United Kingdom New!
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