Author: Pogge, Thomas
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231040332
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.
Freedom from poverty as a human right: who owes what to the very poor?
Author: Pogge, Thomas
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231040332
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231040332
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.
World Poverty and Human Rights
Author: Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509560645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five. However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong. Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509560645
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five. However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong. Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right
Author: Thomas Pogge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199226318
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199226318
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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.
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right
Author: Thomas Pogge
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Freedom from poverty as a human right: economic perspectives
Author: Andreassen, Bard A.
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Freedom from poverty as a human right: law's duty to the poor
Author: Bueren, Geraldine van
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Freedom from Poverty
Author: Daniel P.L. Chong
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201604
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care—while essential to human survival—were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. This book outlines how three types of NGOs—human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations—are breaking down barriers by incorporating access to economic and social goods into national laws and advancing subsistence rights through nonjuridical means. These NGOs are using rights not only as legal instruments but as moral and rhetorical implements to build social movements, shape political culture, and guide development work. Rights language is now invoked in churches, political campaigns, rock concerts, and organizational mission statements. Chong presents a social theory of human rights to provide a framework for understanding these changes and defending the legitimacy of these rights. Freedom from Poverty analyzes new trends in the evolution of human rights by combining constructivist and postpositivist legal approaches. This book provides valuable concepts to human rights practitioners, political scientists, antipoverty advocates, and leaders who are serious about ending widespread privation and disease.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201604
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care—while essential to human survival—were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. This book outlines how three types of NGOs—human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations—are breaking down barriers by incorporating access to economic and social goods into national laws and advancing subsistence rights through nonjuridical means. These NGOs are using rights not only as legal instruments but as moral and rhetorical implements to build social movements, shape political culture, and guide development work. Rights language is now invoked in churches, political campaigns, rock concerts, and organizational mission statements. Chong presents a social theory of human rights to provide a framework for understanding these changes and defending the legitimacy of these rights. Freedom from Poverty analyzes new trends in the evolution of human rights by combining constructivist and postpositivist legal approaches. This book provides valuable concepts to human rights practitioners, political scientists, antipoverty advocates, and leaders who are serious about ending widespread privation and disease.
Freedom from poverty as a human right: theory and politics
Author: Pogge, Thomas
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Law's Duty to the Poor
Author: Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge
Publisher:
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Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Unheard Truth
Author: Irene Khan
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393337006
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The secretary general of Amnesty International puts forth a powerful argument that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393337006
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The secretary general of Amnesty International puts forth a powerful argument that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation.