ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the context of socio-economic rights and seeks to establish the problem that exists in describing the situation of these rights. It explains some of the contrasting and counterposed rights, subjects, and directions of realisation. Recognising that the hybrid overall situation is made up of component 'base units', or individual rights stories, helps promote greater recognition of the complexities of rights realisation. With the help of hybridity, rights realisation can be conceived of as consisting of the realisation of multiple different rights. In repersonalising socio-economic rights accounts, hybridity can allow human rights reporting to more clearly respond to theoretical critiques. It can also stimulate a focus on the interactions that take place within groups, and how these interactions are reflected in the 'public' or overall presentation of the group. The chapter examines that in the absence of significant additional resources or reform, hybridity can add (or acknowledge) depth and nuance in descriptions of socio-economic rights realisation.
