Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-390) and index.
Contents
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 / Alvaro 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 / Stephane 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.
Summary
Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. 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.
