HREQ 3890 Lecture 17: FEB 4th - LECTURE SEVENTEEN- C. CLASS.pdf
6 May 2015
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States have often relied on discourse stressing the importance of economic and social rights as a way of reinforcing state sovereignty. States often claim to be acting on behalf of economic rights when they deny basic civil political liberties on the grounds that doing so is necessary to serve the larger goal of national economic development. Neither the presumption that economic rights inevitably lead to the violation of civil and political rights nor ideological resistance to large and powerful states provides a conniving rational for dismissing the validity of economic and social rights. Lack of access of clean water and basic sanitation. Life expectancy, literacy rates, access to basic sanitation and cereal standards of living have generally been improving throughout the developing world. In low income counties, the challenge is to maximize human development for the large number of people who suffer economic deprivation.
