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 …

The striking feature of our civilisation, as it globalises around the aspiration to
unprecedented prosperity, is the persistence and even increase of poverty, which affects half …

Despite the vast literature about poverty, the concept remains elusive because of its inherent
complexity. We may wish to say that the poor are those persons deprived of the means of …

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 …

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 …

When discussing human rights violations, most people think of genocide, expulsion, ethnic
cleansing, mass rapes, and other atrocities that violate rights to freedom, life, and property …

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reflects a worldwide consensus towards
recognizing multidimensional poverty. It seeks to reduce poverty in 'all its forms and …

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 …

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 …

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 …