Today, poverty prevails as the gravest human rights
challenge in the world. Combating poverty, deprivation and
exclusion is not a matter of charity, and it does not depend
on how rich a country is.
By tackling poverty as a matter of
human rights obligation,
the world will have a better
chance of abolishing this
scourge in our lifetime...
Poverty eradication is an achievable goal.
Louise Arbour
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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Human Rights Day, 10 December 2006
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“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
Article 25 (1), Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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Related links
- Human Rights, Health and Poverty Reduction Strategies, WHO
- Poverty: the human rights approach, UNESCO
- Poverty Reduction, UNDP
- Human Development Report 2006. Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis, UNDP
- Human Develpment Report 2005. International cooperation at crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world, UNDP
- Human Development Report 2003. Milleninum Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty, UNDP
- Human Development Report 2000. Human rights and human development, UNDP
- World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development, World Bank
- World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, World Bank
- Voices of the Poor, World Bank
- World AIDS Day 2006 (1 December)
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