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

Contents:

Opening Note
Michelle Bachelet

Forward
Philip Alston xix

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxv

PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS
1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2
Olivier De Schutter
2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 21
Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona
3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion 37
Ayşe Buğra
4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 53
Gillian MacNaughton
5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 69
Karolina Miriam Januszewski and Manfred Nowak
6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 88
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 106
Gerard Quinn
8 Poverty, older persons and human rights 125
Andrew Byrnes
9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 141
Wouter Vandenhole
10 Capping motherhood 156
Meghan Campbell
11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity and poverty 171
Victor Madrigal-Borloz
12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of Romani people in the European Union 192
Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu
13 Rights, racism, and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave
no one behind 211
Gay McDougall

B. POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING
WITH GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE
14 Immigration, poverty and human rights 230
Tally Kritzman-Amir
15 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the EU 247
Eleni Karageorgiou
16 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the ‘urban turn’ 264
Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor
17 The role of local authorities in addressing poverty and implementing
human rights norms 279
Moritz Baumgärtel
18 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 295
Miloon Kothari
19 The land rights-poverty nexus 310
Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr.
20 Indigenous Peoples’ land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for
poverty eradication and sustainable development 324
Alejandro Fuentes

C. POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PARTICIPATION
21 Human rights, poverty and mobilizations 339
Domingo A. Lovera-Parmo
22 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 355
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 371
Volkan Yilmaz
24 The human right to housing in the age of financialization 386
Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan
25 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 402
Mette Hartlev
26 Human rights and abortion access for people living in poverty:
implications for the United States and globally 417
Risa E. Kaufman and Diana Kasdan
27 What is wrong with the privatization of education as anti-poverty policy
from a human rights perspective? 433
Antonio Barboza-Vergara and Esteban Hoyos-Ceballos
28 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 447
Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas
29 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study 464
Sophal Chea
30 Fair taxes to end poverty 476
Åsa Gunnarsson

PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
31 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 491
Sumudu Atapattu
32 Corruption as a human rights violation 508
Khulekani Moyo
33 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 523
Zafer Kizilkaya
34 Human rights, technology and poverty 537
Linnet Taylor and Hellen Mukiri-Smith
35 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities
accountable for poverty alleviation 552
Lucy Williams

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