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 Article 25: Right to well-being of a person and their family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services. "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care, necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special protection." |
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Article 23: The right to jobs at a living wage and just conditions of work. "Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection... Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions." Article 26: Right to education "Everyone has the right to education..."
The Economic Human Rights Campaign is a national advocacy effort led by poor and homeless women, men and children of all races to raise the issue of poverty as a human rights violation. Its philosophical basis is derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The Universal Declaration delineates the inherent political and economic rights of every "member of the human family." Economic rights include the right to have adequate food, housing and a living-wage job. The Campaign is made up of over 35 organizations of poor people from across the United States - from public housing residents facing the demolition of their homes in Chicago to welfare recipients about to have benefits terminated in Philadelphia; from farm workers receiving poverty wages in Florida to work-fare workers organizing in San Francisco. The Campaign is spearheaded by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU). Located in North Philadelphia, Kensington is the poorest area in the state of Pennsylvania. The first public activity of the Economic Human Rights Campaign was the March for Our Lives in June 1997. Poor and homeless families, drawn from across the United States, marched from Philadelphia to the United Nations in New York City. Arriving after a ten-day trek, they appeared before the UN and charged the United States government with violating economic human rights. The Campaign conducted its second public outreach one year later with the New Freedom Bus Tour - the tour depicted in OUTRIDERS. Fifty poor and homeless people traveled cross-country for a month visiting 35 poor communities, both urban and rural. They gathered testimony and petitions about conditions of poverty and economic human rights violations for presentation to the United Nations and world community. In October 1999, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign joined with other organizations from across North and South America in the March of the Americas. They marched from Washington, DC to the United Nations in New York during a one month period. |
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