Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, United Nations Economic And Social Council

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 3388E
• Professor: James S Quinn

Document Summary

Economic, social and cultural rights include the rights to: All human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated. All human rights, whether they are civil political or social are closely connected and we can"t fragment them away from each other. The hr framework is based on the idea that all humans have rights they are entitled to simply because they are human beings, no right is more important than the other. Universal (apply to every single human being) Interdependent (refers to the complementarity framework of the hr law) People who are denied civpol rights have no way of protecting their ecosoc rights that guarantee their basic needs. Similarly, when ecosoc rights are denied there is less of an opportunity or urgency to use. Ecosoc rights are defined by the icescr (international covent of economic, social and. Intention was for ecosoc and civpol rights to be in the same document.