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Are Socio-economic rights justiciable? It is a commonplace of discussions about human rights that economic and social rights, like the poor themselves, occupy a distinctly second class status. When human rights are mentioned, it is typically civil and political rights that spring to mind, indeed there seems to be permeated through and through both Western government and western society an attitude of indifference toward socio-economic rights. When Western governments include the promotion of human rights in their foreign policy goals where can one find mention of access to the means of livelihood or basic health care? The truth is they are clearly considered much less worthy than other more 'political' rights along the lines of freedoms of expression and political association or a right to due process, which are often made the principle concern of such governmental programmes. And when the role of human rights NGOs is discussed, it is the...

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