The need to eliminate the categories of civil and social rights

Abstract

Human rights have been historically and academically divided in two categories: civil and political rights (CPR), and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR). This idea could be inherited from the first documents that referred to the rights of people, which are the antecedent of the modern human rights treaties, because they dealt to we know now as CPR. However, the universal and regional human rights treaties don’t make a distinction between groups of rights. Even though there are instruments that deal to CPR and escr separately, the United Nations has recognized on several times that all rights are interdependent and indivisible. As a result, it is observed that liberty, which is supposedly the based for CPR, has aspects that make it require satisfaction of minimum conditions for its full realization, which links it closely to ESCR. Therefore, the various objections that have traditionally been made to the effective realization of ESCR are unsustainable.