Economic and Social Rights

Economic and social rights include the right to work, to free choice of job, just and favorable conditions of work and protection against unemployment. Then every one irrespective of sex or color should be entitled to equal wages for the same work. Others have the right to leisure, right to adequate standard of living, right to education and the right to participate freely in the cultural life of community.

These human rights had been discussed by philosophers and political thinkers from time to time despite opposition from their government as referred to earIier. But in 1948 all these rights were set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Assembly adopted them unanimously. Above all the Declaration has been incorporated in the constitutions of a number of countries. Our constitution grants almost all the human rights to the citizens of the country.