Freedom From Poverty As A Human Right Laws Duty To The Poor

Author : Pogge, Thomas
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231040332
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor? written by Pogge, Thomas and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.

Author : Bueren, Geraldine van
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231041452
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right: law's duty to the poor written by Bueren, Geraldine van and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Pogge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199226318
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right written by Thomas Pogge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description.

Author : Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509560645
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five. However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong. Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

Author : Andreassen, Bard A.
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231041444
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom from poverty as a human right: economic perspectives written by Andreassen, Bard A. and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : UNESCO.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right written by UNESCO. and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margot E. Salomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Responsibility for Human Rights written by Margot E. Salomon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text considers the issues of world poverty and global justice, addressing the ability of people in poor or developing countries to have enough food, or clean water, or access to basic healthcare. It draws on international law aimed at the protection and promotion of human rights.

Author : Polly Vizard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515221
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Human Rights written by Polly Vizard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Poverty itself is a violation of numerous basic human rights.' (Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner on Human Rights) The idea that freedom from poverty is a basic human right that gives rise to moral and legal obligations of governments and other actors has received increased international attention in recent years. Mary Robinson, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has pushed the international agenda on poverty and human rights forward by characterizing extreme poverty as one of the key human rights problems that the world faces. The recognition of poverty as a human rights issue is also increasingly reflected in the work of international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and of campaigning organizations such as Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. In Poverty and Human Rights Vizard analyses the importance of the work of the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen for contemporary debates about poverty and human rights. Bringing together perspectives from ethics, economics, and international law, Vizard provides a detailed and concise analysis of Sen's contributions and examines the ways in which his work has promoted cross-fertilization and integration across traditional disciplinary divides. She demonstrates that Sen has made a major contribution to the development of an 'interdisciplinary bridge' between human rights and theoretical and empirical economics, and to the establishment of poverty as a human rights issue. Vizard demonstrates that Sen's work has deepened and expanded human rights discourse in important and influential ways. In ethics, Sen is shown to have challenged the exclusion of poverty, hunger, and starvation from the characterization of fundamental freedoms and human rights, and to have contributed to the development of a framework in which authoritatively recognized international standards in this field can be meaningfully conceptualized and coherently understood. In economics, Sen is shown to have set out a far-reaching critique of standard frameworks that fail to take account of fundamental freedoms and human rights, and to have moved the economics and human rights agenda forward by pioneering the development of new paradigms and approaches which focus on these concerns.

Author : Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074564144X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Poverty and Human Rights written by Thomas W. Pogge and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pogge tries to explain the attitude of affluent populations to world poverty. One or two per cent of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty and Pogge presents a powerful moral argument.

Author : Martha F. Davis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788977513
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty written by Martha F. Davis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.