page_title: Economic, social and cultural rights
section_title: International and regional human rights instruments
hierarchical_section_title: Economic, social and cultural rights / International and regional human rights instruments
context_page_description: Economic, social and cultural rights are socio-economic human rights, such as the right to education, right to housing, right to an adequate standard of living, right to health, victims' rights and the right to science and culture. Economic, social and cultural rights are recognised and protected in international and regional human rights instruments. Member states have a legal obligation to respect, protect and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights and are expected to take "progressive action" towards their fulfilment.
  The Universal Declaration on Human Rights recognises a number of economic, social and cultural rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is the primary international legal source of economic, social and cultural rights. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women recognises and protects many of the economic, social and cultural rights recognised in the ICESCR in relation to children and women.
context_section_description: Economic, social and cultural rights are recognized and protected in a number of international and regional human rights instruments.
caption: Women's economic rights in 2011.[1]