Simran Pardeshi's presentation discusses economic rights, which relate to living with dignity and participating fully in society. These rights include fair wages, social security, housing, food, water, healthcare, and education. The presentation outlines specific economic rights like equality for men and women, the right to work, form unions, an adequate standard of living, health, family protection, and social security. Reasons for constitutionalizing these rights include ensuring human well-being and responding to popular demands. While costs and flexibility are concerns, economic rights are seen as the best hope to make corporations serve human needs.
2. INTRODUCTION
• Economic rights are human rights that relate to our ability to live in dignity and
participate fully in our society. They include rights related to the workplace, social
security, and access to housing, food, water, health care and education. They
include the right to fair wages and equal pay; the right to protection of income in the
event of unemployment, sickness or old age; and the right to an adequate standard
of living.
3. IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS
• Regardless of the solution, the enforcement of economic rights
remains important both in ensuring the adequate and equal
operations of individuals' civil and political rights and in ensuring
adequate standards of living.
4. ECONOMIC RIGHTS
• equality for men and women;
• the right to work and favorable conditions of work;
• the right to form and join trade unions;
• the right to an adequate standard of living including food, clothing and
housing;
• the right to health and healthcare, the protection of the family;
• and the right to social security
5. REASONS FOR CONSTITUTIONALIZING ECONOMIC RIGHTS.
• Economic rights are essential to human well-being,
• Responding to popular demands,
• Entrenching a progressive socio-economic vision,
• Overcoming historical legacies,
• Post-conflict situations,
• Preventing regressive judicial activism,
• Gender equality and protection for marginalized and minority groups.
6. Arguments against recognizing socio-economic rights
• Costs, state capacity and excessive expectations,
• Ideological objections,
• Flexibility and democratic responsiveness,
• Excessive reliance on the judiciary,
• Incorporation does not guarantee a positive outcome.
7. CASE STUDY
• https://www.escr-net.org/resources/case-study-ratifying-optional-
protocol-international-covenant-economic-social-and-cultural
• https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/social-and-
economic-rights-primer.pdf
• Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others v. Grootboom
and Others (CCT11/00, 4 October 2000)
Minerva Mills Ltd. v. Union of India (AIR 1980 SC 1789) New Patriotic
Party v. Attorney General [1996-97] (SC Ghana LR 728 at 745) Olga
Tellis v. Bombay Municipal corporation (AIR 1986 SC 194) Pathumma v.
State of Kerala (AIR 1978 SC 771)
8. CONCLUSION
Economic rights and economic responsibilities
are our best hope to make the corporation serve
the needs of human beings.
