Economic, social and cultural rights re-examined

Abstract

The international human rights movement is facing growing problems of irrelevance to people's daily concerns, marginalization in local and global politics, and cooptation by ruling elites, privileged classes and global economic forces in local as well as global politics. In order to resolve these problems, the movement needs to critically re-examine some of its assumptions and policies in order to recapture its original mandate, revise its concepts and methods.