The term "Human Rights abuse" tends to invoke images of authoritarian regimes that rob their citizens of their right to free expression and torture. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and holds the world record as the most translated document on earth -- protects citizens against such abuses.
The document also protects people's "economic rights." These include the right to adequate housing, freedom from hunger and access to essential medical care. Eleanor Roosevelt and the other framers included these rights because they knew that the concept of free expression requires healthy minds and bodies to carry ideas and that hunger and homelessness are their own forms of physical and physiological torture.....
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