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 …

This chapter shows whether and under what conditions severe poverty violates human
rights in the moral sense. Human agents may participate in imposing social institutions only …

In this essay I defend the validity of a human rights approach to the problem of global
poverty, emphasizing one characteristic of the prevailing indifference toward extreme …

The moral seriousness of the existence of global poverty is hard to dispute. According to
recent UN figures, 1.2 billion people have to survive on less than $1 per day (UNDP 2000 …

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 …

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 …

Difficult as it is to admit, poverty cannot be defined in law. In the tension between dealing
with poverty and focusing on extreme poverty, there is an indeterminacy that makes …

Can poverty be described as the violation of a fundamental human right? Human rights are
usually understood in a more restrictive sense, which makes it possible to think that the …

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 …

Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which
together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with …