International Human Rights Law

Order Description The human rights corpus is depicted as comprising of two normative cannon: civil and political rights (embodied in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights), on the one hand, and social, economic, and cultural rights (embodied in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights), on the other. Yet nations, including the United States, are reluctant to enforce social, economic and cultural rights despite wide acknowledgment that human rights are indivisible, interrelated, and interdependent. You are the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the United States. Write a memorandum to the President of the United States making the case for the equal treatment of both sets of rights in law and fact. Convince him that incorporation of the rights in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights into domestic law is both necessary and beneficial. Describe Civil and Political rights are dependent on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.