Making Social Rights a Human Right

This article explains why social rights should be human rights. Why poverty, capitalism, and the government will motivate the social rights to be regarded as human rights and should be enforceable in court. The cost of social rights leads to a tax increase, but its profit far exceeds the cost. It will greatly reduce the majority of poverty and crime and will improve the overall health of the society. Various aspects of social rights, including food, health care, child care, higher education, housing, basic income and other rights are considered.

There are two main approaches to human rights and the environment. That is the use of existing human rights and the need for new rights. Existing rights are usually divided into (1) civil and political rights and (2) economic, social and cultural rights. Civil rights stipulate moral and political order, including rights to life, equality, political participation and association, and are based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. Economic, social and cultural rights provide a standard of personal well-being. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) contains the right to health and the right for all people to manage their natural resources.

All human rights are indivisible whether civil or political, such as the right to life, equality of all people, freedom of speech before the law, economics such as labor rights, social security and rights to education Social, social and cultural rights, or collective rights For example, development rights and self-determination rights are inseparable, interrelated and interdependent. Improvement of one right contributes to the improvement of other rights. Likewise, deprivation of one right adversely affects other rights.

Human rights is often defined as universal and indivisible. Therefore, every person can enjoy all basic rights by his human nature. These rights apply to those with any nationality, culture, political or economic system, religion, or other qualifications. Unlike treaties and conventions, declarations do not specify approval of government obligations to implement document principles. There are a wide range of academic literature examining many aspects of human rights, and some remarkable resources are spent on social work (eg Ife, 2008; Mapp, 2008; Reichert, 2003, 2006 ; Wronka, 2008). However, it is worth noting that there is little or no reference to environmental justice in the literature on current human rights, including social work.

Sustainability, human rights and environmental justice: important relationships in modern social welfare