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10 - Establishing a Social and International Order for the Realization of Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Lanse Minkler
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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Summary

UDHR Article 28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Introduction

In his definitive study of the drafting history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Johannes Morsink (1999) has little to say about the purpose and meaning behind Article 28, giving only slightly more attention to accompanying Article 22, which serves as an introduction to the “new” economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) set forth in Articles 23–27. According to Morsink, some of the drafters of the UDHR took the view that the two articles essentially covered the same ground, and thus there was no need to include both of them together. However, this position was ultimately rejected. The only substantive discussion of Article 28 that Morsink (1999, 231–232) provides involves the use of the word “good” in the original draft: “Everyone has the right to a good social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.” This vague adjective was later removed.

Based on this thin history, it is apparent that Article 28 was not one of the more hotly contested provisions during the drafting of the UDHR, and with the notable exception of the work of Thomas Pogge, which is referenced later, there has not been a great deal of scholarly attention given to this article since that time, either. Thus, it would be easy to dismiss Article 28 (as well as Article 22) on the basis that it offers no new substantive right, but only the appropriate and proper conditions to achieve certain rights.

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The State of Economic and Social Human Rights
A Global Overview
, pp. 251 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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