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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 corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. The nature of human rights and their corresponding duties is examined, as is the theoretical standing of the social, economic and cultural rights. The authors largely agree in concluding that there is a human right to be free from poverty and that this right is massively violated by the present world economy which creates huge unfair imbalances in income and wealth among and within countries. This searing indictment of the status quo is all the more powerful as the authors endorsing it exemplify diverse philosophical methods and moral traditions and also highlight different aspects of poverty and global institutional arrangements.
This volume will be of great interest and value to academics working in the fields of philosophy, political science and international relations, as well as to undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines. It will also be a crucial aid and challenge to practitioners in international governmental organizations (such as the UN and its agencies) and NGOs who think of their work in human-rights terms. Indeed, in view of the magnitude of the human rights deficit at issue, any moral citizen has reason to engage with the arguments of this book. And the book makes this possible for most in that, throughout, even the most complex aspects of rights theory is discussed in clear, direct language, making the text accessible to specialists and lay readers alike.
Co-published with UNESCO
Contents
Foreword ; Introduction ; 1. Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation ; 2. Poverty as a Violation of Human Rights: Inhumanity or Injustice? ; 3. The Moral Reality of Human Rights ; 4. Inequality and Poverty in Global Perspective ; 5. Poverty as a Form of Oppression ; 6. Neglected Injustice: Poverty as a Violation of Social Autonomy ; 7. The Duties Imposed by the Human Right to Basic Necessities ; 8. Duties to Fulfill the Human Rights of the Poor ; 9. Extreme Poverty in a Wealthy World: What Justice Demands Today ; 10. Responsibility and Severe Poverty ; 11. Global Poverty and Human Rights: the Case for Positive Duties ; 12. The Right to Basic Resources ; 13. Poverty Eradication and Human Rights ; 14. Enforcing Economic and Social Human Rights ; 15. The Right of Resistance in Situations of Severe Deprivation ; Bibliography ; Index
