What
are Economic Human Rights?
The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the international standard
for Human Rights, expresses the rights due every human being - including
food, housing, and living wage jobs. While claiming to defend human
rights, the United States has consistantly ignored and undermined
the global consensus on economic human rights. Economic
Human Rights are mainly expressed in articles 23, 25, and 26 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article
23: The right to jobs at a living wage and just conditions
of work.
"Everyone
has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just
and favorable conditions of work and to protection against
unemployment... Everyone who works has the right to just and
favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family
an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if
necessary, by other means of social protection... Everyone
has the right to form and to join trade unions."
|
 Testimony
from Theresa Burke and others on Article 23 human rights violations.
(From
the Economic Human Rights
Tribunal)
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Article
25: Right to wellbeing of a person and their family, including
food, clothing, housing and medical care and neccesary social
services.
Everyone
has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health
and well-being of himself and of his family, including food,
clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,
and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness,
disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood
in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood
are entitled to special protection."
|
 Testimony
from Mercedes Osario and others on Article 25 human rights
violations.
(From
the Economic Human Rights
Tribunal)
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Article
26: Right to education
"Everyone
has the right to education..."
|
 Testimony
from Heather McKelvey and others on Article 26 human rights
violations.
(From
the Economic Human Rights
Tribunal)
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