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Acceptance Of ESC Rights Many governments - particularly those in the developed countries of the North - maintain that economic, social and cultural rights remain in the realm of wish-fulfilment and that they are not really binding on the members of the UN. Yet the two international treaties that have been ratified by the greatest number of governments - the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women - incorporate economic, social and cultural rights, showing almost universal acceptance of these as legally-binding rights. |