Recent years have seen a greater interest for the “supply-side” of human rights, ie for the
duties correlative to human rights and their duty-bearers." This is important as, even though …

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 …

The various international covenants and declarations on human rights include two kinds of
rights, which are usually described as 'civil and political rights, on one hand, and'economic …

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 …

A common criticism of international human rights declarations is that they lack an adequate
account of the corresponding obligations. This criticism is often thought to be particularly apt …

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 …

States are reticent to support the idea that they have human rights obligations to people
other than their own. However decades of United Nations consideration and human rights …

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 …

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 …

Alicia Ely Yamin* hen it is not accompanied by a/ igh of resignation at the end of a
discussion about the decline of the work ethic, poverty is increasingly treated by politicians …