Freedom from poverty as a human right who owes what to the very poor? /
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...
| Other Authors: | Pogge, Thomas, 1953-, Unesco. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Paris : Oxford ; New York :
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ; Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 406 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st pub. |
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| Summary: |
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. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-390) and index. 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. 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. |
| Physical Description: |
xiii, 406 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-390) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789231040337 9231040332 9780199226313 0199226318 9780199226184 0199226180 |