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At the UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in
1993, governments recognized that human rights are the primary responsibility
of governments. Given this, human rights principles could be used to assess the
ways in which economic policies are moving towards the full realization of
economic and social rights. However, how does one measure a government's
performance on economic and social rights? This brief provides an introduction
to conducting an economic and social rights audit on economic policy.
