Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right

Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right PDF Author: Thomas Pogge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199226318
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Book Description
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.