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THE MUNICIPALISATION OF THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS: TO BE OR NOT TO BE?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 classifies a set of Rights as the Economic, Social and Cultural (ESC) Rights to be found mostly in Articles 22 to 29 of the Declaration. These rights have been re-enacted in various constitutions. Usually, however, these rights have limited enforceability or none at all. In Section II, the ESC rights as they appear in the international covenants are discussed keeping in view that they are subject to the qualification of progressive realization. Section III looks at an instance of derogation from these rights with particular reference to the Sou…