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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and the Interamerican System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Lawrence J. LeBlanc
Lawrence J. LeBlanc*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Marquette University, 526 North 14th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233
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The human rights proclaimed and affirmed in the various international declarations, conventions, and covenants adopted since World War II fall into two broad categories: civil and political; and economic, social, and cultural. The former includes the traditional rights of man, such as the rights to life and liberty; the latter includes such rights as the right to work, to social security, and to the preservation of one's health and well-being.

International agreement in principle on most civil and political rights as human rights has been relatively easy to achieve; disagreement has occurred—and is likely to continue to occur-primarily over their precise meaning. Virtually everyone endorses, for example, a right to life; not everyone agrees, however, that capital punishment or abortion must therefore be prohibited by law.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 61 - 82
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Copyright © University of Miami 1977

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