title: U.N. adopts historic declaration on   economic, social and cultural rights.
abstract: On International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2008, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a landmark document, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D004467:Economics; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012952:Societies; D014480:United Nations