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The Poverty of Rights - Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty (Paperback)
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The Poverty of Rights - Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty (Paperback)
Series: International Studies in Poverty Research
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Political leaders, social scientists and lawyers are nowadays
paying more attention to two, not necessarily related, issues:
concrete measures to reduce poverty and practical steps to respect
human rights enshrined in international and national legal systems.
The innovative contribution of this volume is its bringing together
of these two questions. The authors, who are mainly Latin American,
are deeply aware of their own continent's particular history
vis-a-vis grave human rights violations on the one hand, and the
coexistence of great wealth alongside immense inequality on the
other. Law, they argue, is no panacea for the intractable problem
of poverty. But it can be an indispensable basis for, and
complement to, social mobilization, which, in turn, can be
strengthened by certain kinds of socially engaged and critical
social science. This is all the more so where economic, social and
cultural rights are recognized as being just as important as the
older agenda of civil and political entitlements. Vigorous advocacy
of compliance with international human rights norms and explicit
incorporation and actionability of such standards in national legal
frameworks can then play a role in the struggle to reduce, and
ultimately eradicate, global poverty and social injustice. The
contributors include lawyers and social scientists from a number of
disciplines. Largely eschewing a set of country case studies, but
paying particular attention to indigenous peoples and their
struggles against poverty, they explore a range of important
questions relating to the intersection of human rights and poverty,
including the relatively new notion of the right to development. An
important intellectual contribution breaking new ground in the
political struggle to reduce world poverty.
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