Poverty as a violation of human rights: inhumanity or injustice?
In Thomas Pogge (ed.) Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?, Oxford, 2007, pp. 55–74
Abstract
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.