Integrated approach: An opportunity for strengthening social rights

Abstract

The article was presented in a conference on human rights and the citizenship hold in 2006 points out the need for strengthening social rights and offers a way to do this. The author points out that; although the international human rights law and the legal instruments declares the indivisibility of human rights, there is a widespread tendency to perceive that only civil and political rights are justiciable and consequently there is a lack of protection of social rights by judicial bodies. Nevertheless, as a matter of international human rights law, the justiciability of social rights are widely recognized by various judicial or quasi judicial institutions which were originally established to protect first generation rights. So, this article has examined the integrated approach with a particular focus on the case-law of international human rights monitoring mechanisms on social rights.