political agendas. A recent legislative example is France’s Loi instituant le droit au logement opposable, which recognizes a right to “decent and independent” housing guaranteed by the State and enforceable by mediation and court action. “Reading in” also occurs at the national level, either constitutionally as in India where a right to adequate housing has been read into the constitutional guarantees of the right to life and mobility rights, or legislatively as in the United Kingdom where the Human Rights Act gives domestic effect to the European Convention. These legal regimes- international and domestic- can and often do intersect in two different ways. A first is in regard to content, as international rights are often incorporated into domestic legislation either by reference to the international instrument or in identical or substantially similar terms to it. A second is in regard to enforcement, as domestic courts often have regard to international instruments either to enforce them directly in monist jurisdictions where this is permitted or to use them as aids in interpreting and applying domestic rules in dualist jurisdictions where direct enforcement is not permitted. The enforcement of ESC rights is hotly contested and is intertwined with the issue of recognition. Rights are often regarded in black and white terms, as being either fully justiciable or simply aspirational. Because economic and social rights are justiciable with difficulty at best, they are