explain the distinction between political, economics and cultural rights. give example for each of them
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The differentiation is made below:
(i) Political Rights : It is composed of diffrent rights such as:
(a) Right to Equality :Political rights give to the citizens the right to equality before law and the right to participate in the political process.
(b) Right to vote: Political rights also include such rights as the right to vote and elect representatives, the right to contest elections, the right of form political parties or join them.
Political rights are supplemented by several types of civil liberties, such as a free and fair trial, the right to express one’s views freely, the right to protest and express dissent. Political rights make the government accountable to the people, by giving greater importance to the concerns of the individual over that of the rulers and by ensuring that all persons have an opportunity to influence the decisions of the government.
(ii)Economic Rights: These rights entitiles to have basic needs of life such as right to food, shelter, clothing, health, etc. citizens can enjoy their political rights only when their basic needs are fulfilled. Political rights by themselves have little value without economic rights.
(iii)Cultural Rights : Today, in addition to political and economic rights more and more democracies are recognising the cultural rights of the citizen. Cultural Rights consist of:
(a) The right to have primary education is one’s mother tongue.
(b) The right to establish institutions for teaching one’s language and
Most people love their own language and dialect, their way of living their own literature, music, dance, style of painting, way or style of construction building, their own religion and form of worship.