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Human Rights to Food, Health, and Education

This paper deals with a set of issues related to the human rights to food, health, and education. The rst section attempts to elucidate the philosophical underpinning of these rights, using the conceptual framework of capabilities developed by Amartya Sen. In this context, the notion of ‘capability rights as goal rights’ is elaborated and contrasted with a popular version of libertarian rights. The second section explores the implications of scarcity of resources for viewing economic rights as capability rights. The third section investigates the causal interconnections between different components of economic rights as well as between economic and noneconomic rights. The following section provides a brief historical account of the international community’s efforts to elaborate and institutionalize the notions of rights to food, health, and education in the past half-century. It is shown how closely the emerging consensus on the meaning of these rights resembles the notion of capability rights. The nal section deals with a fundamental problem that remains in operationalizing the rights-based approach to human development and suggests a way forward.