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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge; Unesco. |
| ISBN: | 9789231040337 9231040332 9780199226313 0199226318 9780199226184 0199226180 |
| OCLC Number: | 77821611 |
| Description: | xiii, 406 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Severe poverty as a human rights violation / Thomas Pogge -- Poverty as a violation of human rights : inhumanity or injustice? / Tom Campbell -- The moral reality of human rights / John Tasioulas -- Inequality and poverty in global perspective / Álvaro de Vita -- Poverty as a form of oppression / Marc Fleurbaey -- Neglected injustice : poverty as a violation of social autonomy / Regina Kreide -- The duties imposed by the human right to basic necessities / Elizabeth Ashford -- Duties to fulfill the human rights of the poor / Alan Gewirth -- Extreme poverty in a wealthy world : what justice demands today / Marcelo Alegre -- Responsibility and severe poverty / Leif Wenar -- Global poverty and human rights : the case for positive duties / Simon Caney -- The right to basic resources / Stéphane Chauvier -- Poverty eradication and human rights / Arjun Sengupta -- Enforcing economic and social human rights / Osvaldo Guariglia -- The right to resistance in situations of severe deprivation / Roberto Gargarella. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Thomas Pogge. |
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Abstract:
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. This volume is co-published with UNESCO publishing.
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This is a book that makes a valuable contribution to the consideration of a complex issue of great current significance...I highly recommend this edited collection to the diverse readership that it will no doubt draw, and to anyone concerned with the conditions under which global justice might be acheived. Margot E. Salomen, HRLR 8 Read more...
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- Poverty -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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