What Comes First: Socio-Economic or Civil and Political Equality?

Authors

Tom Ginsburg
Claudia Flores
Margaret Huang
Jamil Dakwar

Publication Date

8-25-2022

Streaming Media

Abstract

Would you put a price tag on your rights? If you had to choose between your socio-economic rights or your freedom to peacefully protest, what would you choose? It's a question that might get a lot of mixed responses, but some might argue you can't have one without the other. In this episode of Entitled, Claudia and Tom discuss these two groups of rights: socio-economic rights and civil and political rights. They take a deeper look at the United States with Margaret Huang, president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, about why the US has had a hard time increasing socio-economic equality. Lastly, they speak with Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, about why we need to think about human rights more holistically.

Recommended Citation

Ginsburg, Tom; Flores, Claudia; Huang, Margaret; and Dakwar, Jamil, "What Comes First: Socio-Economic or Civil and Political Equality?" (2022). Entitled. 30.
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/entitled/30