You may be surprised at how seriously business leaders are taking economic and social rights.
The ruling will give gay couples in "stable" partnerships the same financial and social rights enjoyed by those in heterosexual relationships.
It includes elements of political participation, social rights, civil liberties, and equal access across race, ethnicity and gender to social services and labor markets.
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It seems as probable that they will undermine their credibility to a greater extent by failing to endorse economic and social rights.
Look closer, and who but the state can provide the necessary rules for trading standards, the environment, social rights and so on?
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By being conscious of where and what our shopping dollars are rewarding, we can ensure that corporations respect human, environmental and social rights.
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This is just superficial convergence, however, for it masks the fact that the parties have quite discrete positions on questions of social rights and equality.
The balance between social rights and individual responsibility appears to be more fairly balanced In New Labour social policy than it does with the Conservatives.
Mr Bickerstaffe now heads a delegation from Solidar, an alliance of trade unions and NGOs who are campaigning for the inclusion of social rights in the globalisation process.
However, in providing 30 years of virtually uninterrupted economic growth, while simultaneously dismissing the importance of social rights, the government unwittingly signed onto its own form of social contract.
But he has now put on record that the rules on military engagement should be included and social rights - such as housing and free education - should also feature.
Together, they discussed the consequences of the financial crash on education, job creation, food and nutritional safety, family protection, equality between men and women, and, more generally, on all the social rights of the people of that region.
Former Labour justice secretary Jack Straw said the Strasbourg court had "extended its jurisdiction" from "fundamental human rights into social and civic rights, for which we have not signed up".
These efforts to establish international economic and social human rights should be recognised for what they are: an attempt to put teeth into the hoary socialist dream of global wealth redistribution.
The treaty gives legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a sweeping catalogue of social and civil rights.
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As Amartya Sen has pointed out, civil and political rights are very important supports for social and economic rights.
Asked why Poland had followed Britain in seeking a semi-exemption from the Charter of Fundamental Rights (a sweeping list of social and political rights), officials said their government was worried that the charter could force Poland to legalise gay marriage and accept unlimited abortion.
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The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms that States are duty-bound, as stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in other international human rights instruments, to ensure that education is aimed at strengthening the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
But to associate civil and political rights with the obligation not to harm, and social and economic rights with the obligation to benefit is a mistake.
The 1988 constitution, a hotch-potch of social and economic rights, encourages appeals in even trivial disputes to the Supreme Court.
The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has also underlined the need for bilingual and multicultural education.
It enshrines a wide range of social and economic rights as well as the more usual civil and political freedoms.
In consequence, a twilight world has grown up, inhabited by perhaps 50, 000 people with no civil status and no social and political rights.
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Lately, however, the rules of the game have been changing, as economically empowered citizens have begun to push for more social and political rights.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) recognizes the rights to "be free from hunger", to enjoy "the highest attainable standard" of health, and to education.
Conversely, in a country where social and economic rights are secure, where people do not have to focus all their energy on getting their next meal, a genuine democracy is more likely to exist.
It sets out certain political, social and economic rights of EU citizens, and allows the European Court of Justice to strike down any aspect of EU law that is deemed to contravene the charter.
If people in the Western countries tend to consider social and economic rights less compelling, I think it is because they conceive these rights as rights to be helped, to be supported or to be given something.
Contribute to the work of the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies, especially the Committee on Economic, social and Cultural Rights and participate in their work as well as that of the Human rights council and other UN bodies related to the right to education.
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The World Conference on Human Rights calls upon the international community to make all efforts to help alleviate the external debt burden of developing countries, in order to supplement the efforts of the Governments of such countries to attain the full realization of the economic, social and cultural rights of their people.
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