10 Facts About Social rights

Economic, social and cultural rights are socio-economic human rights, such as the right to education, right to housing, right to an adequate standard of living, right to health, victims' rights and the right to science and culture.

Economic, social and cultural rights are recognised and protected in international and regional human rights instruments.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women recognises and protects many of the economic, social and cultural rights recognised in the ICESCR in relation to children and women.

Economic, social and cultural rights are recognized and protected in a number of international and regional human rights instruments.

Range of secondary legal sources exist on economic, social and cultural rights which provide guidance on their normative definition.

Constitutional recognition of economic, social and cultural rights has long been thought to be counterproductive, given that courts might be tasked to adjudicate them, and hence disrupt the democratic chains of accountability of the so-called elected branches.

Sympathetic critics argue that socio-economic Social rights appear 'quite negligible' factors in terms of ensuring overall human development.

State parties must abolish laws, policies and practices which affect the equal enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights and take action to prevent discrimination in public life.

Economic, social and cultural rights are less likely than civil and political rights to be protected in national constitutions.

The theory of negative and positive rights considers economic, social and cultural rights positive rights.