The living library: some theoretical approaches to a strategy for activating human rights and peace

Abstract

This paper examines the right to adequate clothing as part of the more general right to an adequate standard of living in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) (UDHR). Very little has been written about the right, with scholars and international organisations neglecting it compared with food, housing and health. This neglect is baffling and troubling given that the failure to fulfil the right to adequate clothing can seriously undermine human well-being. The right to adequate clothing is especially important to a range of vulnerable people, including children, prisoners, people with disabilities, the elderly, the institutionalised and the drug-dependent. The paper demonstrates the right’s connection with other rights listed in Article 25, as well as its connection with other UDHR articles: including those relating to remuneration and workplace conditions (Article 23) and the international order (Article 28). The paper concludes that we must not forget the right to adequate clothing when analysing Article 25; that we need to elucidate other international, regional and national legal provisions relevant to the right; and that civil society has an important part to play in advancing the right.

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