The Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, a leader of the ultra-rightist Jewish Home Party, put the matter bluntly in August: "Zionism should not continue, and I say here, it will not continue to bow down to the system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way".
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights interpret the Covenant as also requiring states to respect the academic freedom of staff and students, as this is vital for the educational process.
The latter clause is sometimes seen as requiring the protection of intellectual property, but the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights interprets it as primarily protecting the moral rights of authors and "proclaim[ing] the intrinsically personal character of every creation of the human mind and the ensuing durable link between creators and their creations".
This view is supported by several human rights bodies which, lacking jurisdiction over (or the justiciability of) economic, social and cultural rights, have interpreted the right to life to include subsistence rights.
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The image below, tweeted by @namin3485, demonstrates that even though the right-hand side of each image is the same, in the context of the two different left halves, the right is interpreted as being either white and gold, or blue and black.
The material rights are interpreted as being part of the right to an adequate standard of living, and "need not extend over the entire lifespan of an author".
One area of both Sonke's and Khululeka's work that consistently produced heated debate and discussion was that of human rights, and in particular, the ways human rights were interpreted and applied in South Africa with respect to children; women; and members of the lesbian, gay bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
It also reserves the right to interpret the labour rights in Articles 7 and 8 and the non-discrimination clauses of Articles 2 and 3 within the context of its constitution and domestic law.
It also reserves the right to interpret and implement the right of parents to choose and establish educational institutions in a manner compatible with its constitution.
