Poverty, despite being an obvious violation of human rights, does not seem to be a matter of
concern for those in the legal field. Considerations to be made with respect to the right to …

From one point of view, it can be hard to imagine how anything could be less controversial
than the anti-poverty provisions of contemporary international human rights doctrine …

There are principles of governance that should be treated as undisputed premises for the
way society is to be led in a modern, democratically organised state. The first principle is the …

This thesis approaches poverty from a legal viewpoint, more specifically from the
perspective of human rights. The fact that poverty is a violation of most human rights has …

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 …

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 …

Usually, when we discuss the issue of poverty in legal and political theory we deal with
questions of distributive justice or we try to affirm or deny a certain list of basic rights …

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 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 this chapter, we examine the proposition that 'poverty is a violation of human rights', which
has been put forward by UNESCO and some other human rights activists to mobilize …