WAEC 2021 Government · Question 8
The right to an adequate standard of living falls under
Options
- A.civil rights
- B.economic right
- C.free market economy
- D.right to life
Answer: B. economic right
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Analyze the question: The question asks which category of human rights includes the right to an adequate standard of living (food, clothing, housing, healthcare, etc.).
Explain the concept: Rights are grouped into categories:
- Civil/political rights: protect individual freedoms and participation, such as freedom of speech, fair hearing, voting, and freedom of movement.
- Economic (and social) rights: relate to material wellbeing, such as the right to work, to fair wages, to education, to social security, and to an adequate standard of living.
- Right to life: a specific basic right, mainly about protection from arbitrary killing.
- Free market economy: this is an economic system, not a type of right.
Solution:
- Option C, free market economy, is not a right at all, so we eliminate it.
- Option D, right to life, is about protecting a person's life from being unlawfully taken. It is not about living standards, so we eliminate it.
- Option A, civil rights, covers personal freedoms and legal protections, not material welfare, so it is not the best fit.
- Option B, economic right, covers access to the resources needed for a decent life, including food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. This is exactly what an "adequate standard of living" means (as in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which links it to economic and social rights).
Answer: B. economic right
Tip: Link keywords to categories. If you see words like work, wages, standard of living, social security, education, think economic/social rights. If you see speech, movement, fair trial, vote, think civil/political rights.
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