Human Rights As Indivisible Rights ─ The Protection of Socio-economic Demands Under the European Convention on Human Rights

The phrase "indivisible, interdependent, and interrelated" appear in a number of major international human rights conventions, says Koch (the Danish Institute for Human Rights), but in practice social, economic, and cultural rights are not afforded the same due as civil and political rights. To demonstrate that--and how it can be done, she describes how the European Court of Human Rights has protected five different rights under the Convention that are traditionally categorized as socio-economic. They are the rights to health, to housing, to education, to social cash benefits, and various work-related rights. She also discusses the issue of power balance in socio-economic rights as justiciable rights. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ida Elisabeth Koch (Ph.D. 1995, in law, University of Copenhagen), has worked for a number of years primarily at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She has published extensively on various human rights issues, primarily on the issue of economic, social and cultural rights.