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Book SynopsisTrade Review'The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
is a timely and welcome addition to the growing literature on poverty, economic inequality and human rights. Coming at a propitious global moment, in the wake of a crushing pandemic that has reinforced and exacerbated the historical causes, impacts and patterns of poverty, this volume provides cogent and innovative insights into confronting poverty as a core human rights issue. An impressively interdisciplinary exploration by a collection of thoughtful and informed scholars and advocates who are well versed in the issues of poverty and human rights, the Handbook is a compelling and useful text for educators. Hopefully, it may also spawn commitments from policy makers and governments worldwide to confront the urgent need to eradicate poverty and inequality.' -- – Penelope Andrews, President, Law & Society Association (2019-2021); Professor of Law and Director, Racial Justice Project, New York Law School
Table of ContentsContents: 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 Index
