Research handbook on human rights and poverty edited by Martha F. Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda Lyons

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Martha F., 1957-

Kjaerum, Morten.

Lyons, Amanda.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Research handbooks in human rights.

Research Handbooks in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Poverty.

Social rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2021

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 Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Opening note

Foreword

Acknowledgements

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

2. From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty

3. Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion

4. Is economic inequality a violation of human rights?

5. Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion

6. Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages?

PART II CROSS-CURRENTS

Section A. Poverty, Human Rights and Identity

7. Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human rights in the 21st century

8. Poverty, older persons and human rights

9. Child impoverishment and the human rights of children

10. Capping motherhood

11. The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and poverty

12. Assessing racialized poverty: the case of Romani people in the European Union

13. Rights, racism and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no one behind

Section B. Poverty and Human Rights, Intersecting with Geography and Place

14. Immigration, poverty and human rights

15. Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the EU

16. Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the 'urban turn'

17. Local authorities, poverty and the implementation of human rights norms

18. Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach

19. The land rights-poverty nexus

20. Indigenous Peoples' land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty eradication and sustainable development.

Section C. Poverty, Human Rights and Participation

21. Human rights, poverty and mobilizations

22. Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged

PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES

23. A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new behaviourism, social investment and new universalism

24. The human right to housing in the age of financialization

25. The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective

26. Human rights and abortion access for people living in poverty: implications for the United States and globally

27. What is wrong with the privatization of education as anti-poverty policy from a human rights perspective?

28. Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection

29. Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study

30. Fair taxes to end poverty

PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS

31. Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges

32. Corruption as a human rights violation

33. Conflict, poverty and human rights violations

34. Human rights, technology and poverty

35. Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities accountable for poverty alleviation

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78897-751-3

OCLC:

1201299531