A human rights-based approach to poverty is one that goes beyond an identification of
unfulfilled needs to address deprivation: it seeks to identify the causes of poverty redefined …

Conventional poverty studies adopt an income framework, in which poverty is defined as a
lack of income (relative to need) and measured using an income poverty line. However …

Executive summary Human rights have been used to shape new conceptions of poverty and
new approaches to tackling it, in both the developed and developing worlds. There is …

The Human Development Report 2000 of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) noted:'People are turning more and more to the law–including international human …

This chapter addresses the challenge posed by poverty to the protection of human rights.
Human rights define the entitlements considered necessary for a life of dignity in society …

From a philosophical point of view, the UNESCO project “Poverty and Human Rights” may
be seen as an attempt to explain the idea of morally unacceptable poverty in a way that …

Addressing how a human rights-based approach can contribute to poverty reduction, the
chapter refiects critically on the tendency of human rights research to imbed poverty analysis …

The link between poverty and human rights has been made with increased frequency in the
last few years. 2 This attention to both the causal and normative aspects of this link coincides …

The proposal that poverty be regarded as a violation of human rights and therefore
abolished is presented as a new paradigm in the fight against poverty that has the potential …

In two interesting papers on human rights and extreme poverty, 8 Arjun Sengupta develops
an argument for viewing extreme poverty as a violation of human rights. His discussion …