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 …

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 …

Amongst the memories of my childhood during the Second World War in South Africa, two
stand out. The first is a picture above the desk of my father, a trade union leader who had …

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 …

Poverty has been a central subject of economics, sociology, and other social sciences for a
long time. But it has not been a frequent concern of lawyers until quite recently. The …

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 …

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 …

The violation of the right to a reasonable standard of living entails the violation of all the
other human rights, since their observance is quite simply made materially and structurally …

The often quoted statement that" poverty itself is a violation of numerous basic human
rights", 3 expresses the moral intuition that, in a world rich in resources and the …