Economic rights realization was tied to a just international economic order

Evidence

In an address to delegates of sixty-three nations at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Santiago one year before the coup, Allende stressed the need to rectify an unfair international division of labour based on ‘age-old exploitation’ and a ‘dehumanized concept of mankind’. Chile’s delegate to the UNCTAD conference was Hernán Santa Cruz, who had struggled decades earlier to secure the social and economic rights in the UDHR. At the UNCTAD conference, Santa Cruz stressed that the realisation of the UDHR’s social, economic and cultural rights required a just international economic order. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 319

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s human-rights/economic-policy literature: Santa Cruz locates economic rights’ realization in the structure of the world economy, prefiguring the contemporary debate on austerity and human-rights law. — connects to: Neoliberals saw human rights standards as a way to depoliticize international economic relations — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 450; The economic order is a human creation and therefore changeable, not natural law — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 41; Economic rights claims grew directly from anti-neocolonial struggles — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 230 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did the UDHR’s own drafting — Santa Cruz’s role — encode this structural view of economic rights rather than a purely domestic one?

Broader Connections

• Economic rights claims grew directly from anti-neocolonial struggles #corroborates (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 230
• The 1970s human rights movement actively undermined the New International Economic Order #contradicts (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 427
• The economic order is a human creation and therefore changeable, not natural law #qualifies (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 41
• Neoliberals saw human rights standards as a way to depoliticize international economic relations #contradicts (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 450