What are Social, Economic and Cultural Rights?
“Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” was the slogan of the French Revolution, and some writers have used the slogan as a rough guide to divide human rights into three “generations”.
The first generation of human rights, which were the first to be recognised in international law, are those concerned with “liberty”, i.e. with the right to participate in political life. Examples of these rights are the rights to personal liberty and the protection of law, freedom of association and speech, and the right to vote in elections.