Public Law Studies Quarterly

The Nature of Economic, Social And Cultural Rights in the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights And the Cairo Declaration, with Emphasis on the Right to Work and the Right to Education

Document Type : Article

Authors

Seyed Abbas Araghchi 1
Ali Bahreini 2

1 Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D in International Law, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2021.307930.2516
Abstract
Common categories in the field of human rights generally refer to three groups or three generations of human rights, the first and second generations are called civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights, respectively. This division is mainly due to the existence of conflicting views on the nature of these two categories of rights. Economic and social rights in the international human rights literature have no long history and therefore the conceptual discussions around them are insufficient and few. This paper will make a comparative study of the views of two important international instruments on the nature of economic and social rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the most important United Nations instrument in the field of human rights and the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, expresses an Islamic view of human rights that is also in itself critical of the universal declaration of human rights. This paper analyzes the views of the two declarations on the nature of economic and social rights, and then will discuss in detail the dimensions and characteristics of labor rights and the right to education from the perspective of the above declarations.

Keywords

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
economic and social rights
labor rights
right to education
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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Public Law Studies Quarterly
Volume 54, Issue 1
Spring 2024
Spring 2024
Pages 591-609

  • Receive Date 22 August 2020
  • Revise Date 15 October 2020
  • Accept Date 27 June 2021

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