Marginality of economic and social rights 2016, para. 18
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- There is also the question of the legitimacy of the overall human rights enterprise. The economic and social rights framework is increasingly portrayed by critics as being toothless and ineffectual and bringing small or no returns in terms of social justice. Based on such critiques, commentators have argued that only a radically different, non-human rights-based, language could meaningfully address these challenges, that economic and social rights mandates are diverting resources away from the rights that matter, that only political parties and social movements and not human rights groups have the potential to achieve social justice objectives, and that free markets and private enterprise hold the key to economic and social rights in the wake of clear governmental failures in this domain.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 18
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