Table 6 Minimum core obligations ( Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2008)

Ensure the right of access to employment, especially for disadvantaged and marginalised individuals and groups, enabling them to live a life of dignity

Ensure access to the minimum essential food that is nutritionally adequate and safe, to ensure freedom from hunger to everyone

Ensure access to basic shelter, housing, and sanitation, and an adequate supply of safe drinking water

Provide essential drugs as defined under the World Health Organization's Action Programme on Essential Drugs

Ensure free and compulsory primary education for all

Ensure access to a social security scheme that provides a minimum essential level of benefits that cover at least essential health care, basic shelter and housing, water and sanitation, food, and the most basic forms of education