World Poverty and Human Rights

World Poverty and Human Rights

Author: Thomas W. Pogge

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-02-10

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1509560645

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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.


Global Responsibility for Human Rights

Global Responsibility for Human Rights

Author: Margot E. Salomon

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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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.


Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right

Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right

Author: Thomas Pogge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0199226318

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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.


Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

Author: Martha F. Davis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1788977513

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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.


The Unheard Truth

The Unheard Truth

Author: Irene Khan

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393337006

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The secretary general of Amnesty International puts forth a powerful argument that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation.


Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights

Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights

Author: Desmond McNeill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-01-15

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1134063539

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Examines the activities of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, in relation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank.


The Ethics of Assistance

The Ethics of Assistance

Author: Deen K. Chatterjee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04-08

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521527422

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As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates. At issue are both the political responsibility of governments of affluent countries to relieve poverty abroad and the personal responsibility of individuals to assist the distant needy. The wide-ranging arguments shed light on global distributive justice, human rights and their implementation, the varieties of community and the obligations they generate, and the moral relevance of distance. This provocative volume will interest scholars in ethics, political philosophy, political theory, international law and development economics, as well as policy makers, aid agencies, and general readers interested in the moral dimensions of poverty and affluence.


Real World Justice

Real World Justice

Author: A. Follesdal

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-06-08

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781402031410

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The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries. Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree that the touchstone is how well our global institutional order is doing, compared to its feasible alternatives, in regard to the fundamental human interests that matter from a moral point of view. We are responsible for global regimes such as the global trading system and the rules governing military interventions. These institutional arrangements affect human beings worldwide, for instance by shaping the options and incentives of governments and corporations. Alternative paths of globalization would have differed in how much violence, oppression, and extreme poverty they engender. And global institutional reforms could greatly enhance human rights fullfillment in the future. The importance of this global justice approach reaches well beyond philosophy. It enables ordinary citizens to understand their options and responsibility for global institutional factors, and it challenges social scientists to address the causes of poverty and hunger that act across borders. The present volume addresses four main topics regarding global justice: The normative grounds for claims regarding the global institutional order, the substantive normative principles for a legitimate global order, the roles of legal human rights standards, and some institutional arrangements that may make the present world order less unjust. All royalties from this book have been assigned to Oxfam.


World Poverty

World Poverty

Author: Townsend, Peter

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2002-09-25

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1861343957

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Includes statistics.


Human Rights and Climate Change

Human Rights and Climate Change

Author: Siobhan Mcinerney-Lankford

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0821387235

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This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights, examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers arguments about (i) the human rights impacts of climate change at a macro level and how these impacts are spread disparately across countries; (ii) how climate change impacts human rights enjoyment within states and the equity and discrimination dimensions of those disparate impacts; and (iii) the role of international legal frameworks and mechanisms, including human rights instruments, particularly in the context of supporting developing countries’ adaptation efforts. The Study surveys the interface of human rights and climate change from the perspective of public international law. It builds upon the work that has been carried out on this interface by reviewing the legal issues it raises and complementing existing analyses by providing a comprehensive legal overview of the area and a focus on obligations upon States and other actors connected with climate change. The objective has therefore been to contribute to the global debate on climate change and human rights by offering a review of the legal dimensions of this interface as well as a survey of the sources of public international law potentially relevant to climate change and human rights in order to facilitate an understanding of what is meant, in legal terms, by “human rights impacts of climate change” and help identify ways in which international law can respond to this interaction.