Amnesty International has called on the Government to set a timetable to ratify a new international treaty.
It says the treaty would protect human rights such as healthcare, housing and education that are under threat from austerity policies.
The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect today.
The Government signed the treaty last year, but has not ratified it.
Amnesty's Irish Executive Director Colm O'Gorman said the treaty allows people to take a case to the United Nations if their human rights are violated.
He said the Government must balance austerity measures with its legal obligation to protect human rights and to be accountable.
Programmes Director at Amnesty International Ireland Noeleen Hartigan said the Government must ratify the treaty despite the tough economic situation:
"Ireland signed a treaty back in 1989 that said that things like housing, health, adequate food, adequate income were all human rights.
"That treaty also says that the Government has to use maximum available resources to deliver on those rights - so we can't use austerity as an excuse, and even at time of austerity, the Government has to take into consideration that these issues are human rights," she added.
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