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 …

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 …

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 …

This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and
inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming …

The article addresses the function human rights instruments can have in the context of the
fight against (extreme) poverty. Human rights law is no panacea for the intractable problem …

Poverty is an important human rights concern. Human rights are claims that people have for
social arrangements to guarantee their substantive freedoms; poverty reflects failures in …

This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights
from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working …

This book explores the potential contribution of a human rights perspective to the
development of policies and programmes that strengthen the sustainability of poor people's …

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 …

Though they improve upon the millennium development goals (MDGs), the new sustainable
development goals (SDGs) have important draw-backs. First, in assessing present …