ZAÅ TITA PRAVA U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI - Solidar

Socio – economic rights study in Bosnia and Herzegovina
5. Conclusion
The provisions of the International pact on economic, social and cultural rights
as well as the provisions of the European Social Charter offer a meaningful protection
of socio-economic rights. Many countries have harmonized its legislation with their
provisions and thus contributed to the growth of its population’s living standards,
social inclusion, and development of democracy. Harmonization of legislation and its
implementation with these important international acts carries not only the international
recognition which places the country in the order of civilized societies, but also
legitimized the states in the eyes of its citizens.
Socio – economic rights study in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Socio-economic rights cannot be fulfi lled overnight. Their fulfi llment has to
be gradual and progressive, which has been stipulated by the International pact on
economic, social and cultural rights. But every state can immediately undertake a set
of measures, especially legislative ones, in order to establish an adequate system,
which is to assure socio-economic rights of wider population categories, and especially
of those members who by their work or engagement are unable to provide a minimum
of social rights for themselves. It is important that these measures, or laws, are not
planned to create discrimination among people of the same socio-economic status.
Rather, these measures must help in dwindling social inequalities and help create an
equal opportunity society.
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