There was a time when the very mention of women’s rights, concern for the environment, civil and political rights for former slaves and the working class, some measure of health protection, etc., were frowned upon and ridiculed as utopian. Yet today they are partial realities in some parts of the world. Frown and ridicule as the complacently ignorant and the voluptuous may, social, economic and cultural rights should be fought for relentlessly, as part of the struggle to extend the limited rights that have been won but are eroding in the aforementioned areas