Where Needs Meet Rights: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in a New Perspective - Softcover

Goldewijk, Berma Klein; Fortman, Bas De Gaay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2825413194 ISBN 13: 9782825413197

Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications), 1999

Synopsis

While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says 'everyone has a right' to food, housing, livelihood and health, advocacy for human rights tends to emphasize people's civil and political rights rather than their economic and social rights. The poverty, violence and globalization which are depriving more and more people of these basic human entitlements calls for creative new approaches to economic and social rights which, the authors say, must be rooted in human needs, human dignity and legitimacy and underpinned by religious convictions. Such approaches will consider poverty and violence not merely as problems to be solved by economic development but as everyday realities for millions of people in the world -- realities which oblige their fellow human beings to act.

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About the Author

Berma Klein Goldewijk is Programme Director of CEDAR (Centre for Dignity and Rights Forum for the Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) in the Hague, Netherlands. Bas de Gaay Fortman is Professor of Political Economy at the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications)
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2825413194
• ISBN 13: 9782825413197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146