... typically a state-sponsored torture or 'disappearance' rather than, say, childhood death through a preventable disease. The UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights made a statement ten years ago that could still be quite relevant today. Here the UNESCR described the present situation as 'shocking' due to the tendency of states and the international community to tolerate 'breaches of social, economic and cultural rights which if they occurred in relation to civic or political rights would provoke expressions of horror and outrage...and there would be immediate remedial action'. The disparity is undeniable. The question then becomes why does this disparity exist? For it could be reasonable for states to maintain this approach if it could be shown that socio-economic rights simply are not justiciable. This could, admittedly, have a massive detrimental effect on the validity of government particularly in those democratic countries in the world. The public's confidence in ...

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