Research handbook on human rights and poverty

Publication/Creation:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Research handbook on human rights and poverty / edited by Martha F. Davis (University Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, US), Morten Kjaerum (Adjunct Professor, University of Aalborg, Denmark and Director of Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden) and Amanda Lyons (Executive Director and Lecturer in Law, Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota Law School, US).

Series Titles:

Research handbooks in human rights series
Research handbooks in human rights series.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Davis, Martha F., 1957-, editor
Kjaerum, Morten, editor
Lyons, Amanda, editor
Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Human rights--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Poverty--Handbooks, manuals, etc
Human rights

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Contents: Opening Note / Michelle Bachelet -- Forward / Philip Alston -- Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty -- PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS -- 1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty / Olivier De Schutter -- 2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty / Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona -- 3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion / Ayşe Buğra -- 4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? / Gillian MacNaughton -- 5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion / Karolina Miriam Januszewski and Manfred Nowak -- 6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? / Hans-Otto Sano -- PART II CROSS-CURRENTS A. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND IDENTITY -- 7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human rights in the 21st century / Gerard Quinn -- 8 Poverty, older persons and human rights / Andrew Byrnes -- 9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children / Wouter Vandenhole -- 10 Capping motherhood / Meghan Campbell -- 11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and poverty / Victor Madrigal-Borloz -- 12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of Romani people in the European Union / Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu -- 13 Rights, racism, and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no one behind / Gay McDougall -- B. POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITH GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE -- 14 Immigration, poverty and human rights / Tally Kritzman-Amir -- 15 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the EU / Eleni Karageorgiou -- 16 Seeing human rights like -- a city: the prospects and perils of the 'urban turn' / Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor -- 17 The role of local authorities in addressing poverty and implementing human rights norms / Moritz Baumgärtel -- 18 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach / Miloon Kothari -- 19 The land rights-poverty nexus / Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr. -- 20 Indigenous Peoples' land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty eradication and sustainable development / Alejandro Fuentes -- C. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION -- 21 Human rights, poverty and mobilizations / Domingo A. Lovera-Parmo -- 22 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged / Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas -- PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES -- 23 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new behaviourism, social investment and new universalism / Volkan Yilmaz -- 24 The human right to housing in the age of financialization / Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan -- 25 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective / Mette Hartlev -- 26 Human rights and abortion access for people living in poverty: implications for the United States and globally / Risa E. Kaufman and Diana Kasdan -- 27 What is wrong with the privatization of education as anti-poverty policy from a human rights perspective? / Antonio Barboza-Vergara and Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos -- 28 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection / Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas -- 29 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study / Sophal Chea -- 30 Fair taxes to end poverty / Åsa Gunnarsson -- PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS -- 31 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges / Sumudu Atapattu -- 32 Corruption as a human rights violation / Khulekani Moyo -- 33 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations / Zafer Kizilkaya -- 34 Human rights, technology and poverty / Linnet Taylor and Hellen Mukiri-Smith -- 35 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities accountable for poverty alleviation / Lucy Williams -- Index.

Summary:

"This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and inequalities of capabilities and power relate to economic, civil, social, cultural and political rights. Leading experts in the human rights field representing a range of disciplines outline a future research agenda that addresses poverty and inequality head on. Beginning with an interrogation of the definition of poverty, subsequent chapters analyse the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, geography, and migration status. The rights to housing, land, health, work, education, protest and access to justice are also explored, with a recognition of the challenges posed by corruption, climate change, and new technologies. The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty is an essential reference guide for scholars and students of human rights subjects, who are teaching this material and developing future research agendas of their own. This will also be a much-needed resource for people working practically to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (624 pages).

General Note:

Includes index.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937341125602486

ISBN:

9781788977517 (e-book)