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4 Gonz. J. Int'l L. 1 (2000-2001)

handle is hein.journals/gjil4 and id is 1 raw text is: International Economic Rights Zeshan Khan Zeshan Khan received his BA in religious studies and English from the University of Florida. He graduated magna cum laude in 1994. He received his JD from the Chicago- Kent College of Law in May of 1999. He is currently working as an associate for the law firm of Johnson, Graffe, Keay, and Moniz in Seattle, Washington. He would like to thank Professor Bart Brown for his insight and guidance in this and other projects. Introduction In the economic policies of the government, one finds not only the explanationfor its repressive crimes, but also a greater atrocity which punishes millions of human beings with carefully planned misery...' With an increasing disparity of global wealth, more and more peripheral groups question the substantiation of the current economic legal order. Recently, some critics have gone so far as to state that economic and social rights should be placed on an echelon equal to that of basic international human rights such as the freedom from racial discrimination, the freedom from slavery, and the prohibition against torture, as well as liberal rights such as the freedom to a fair trial and freedom of speech.3 This paper is an evaluation of economic rights, as they currently exist, as they are currently fought for, and the conditions necessary to bring about their future existence. Economic rights have been commonly linked to social rights. But economic rights have similarly been allied with civil and political rights in recent years. Dubbed second generation rights,4 economic rights (and their brethren, social rights) currently play a subordinate role to the preservation (or achievement) to civil and political rights'- But a small, yet strong movement has begun that seeks to incorporate economic rights in international legal discourse with the same attention that is paid to civil and political rights. I believe one necessary element in facilitating the growth and implementation of economic rights is the moderation of global market liberalism.

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