Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty

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1 to 3 July 2008 - 3rd World Forum on Human Rights : the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, Ms. Magdalena Sepulveda, participated in the 3rd World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes, France. The Independent Expert made presentations on two panels; the first on the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights; and the second on the draft of the guiding principles, “Extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor”. She also met with Mr. Jose Bengoa Cabello, member of the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council, to discuss the draft guiding principles and the preparatory process for the World Social Forum.

12-13 May – Third International Policy Conference on the African Child - The independent expertparticipated to the Third International Policy Conference on the African Child - Towards Action against Child Poverty in Africa. The meeting was organized by the African Child Policy Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In her presentation she outlined the contributions of the human rights approach to policies addressing child poverty.

1 May 2008 - New Independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty assume her functions - The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed a new Independent Expert on extreme poverty during its seventh session held in March 2008. Magdalena Sepulveda, a Chilean national, will assume her role as of 1 May 2008. More...

Consultation process for the “draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor” : The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on resolution 2/2 the Human Rights Council took note of the “draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor” annexed to Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights resolution 2006/9 of 24 August 2006, and requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to “circulate the draft guiding principles, in order to obtain the views of States, relevant United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organisations, United Nations treaties bodies, special procedures including the Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, national human rights institutions, non-governmental organisations, especially those in which people in situations of extreme poverty express their views, and other relevant stakeholders, and to report to the Council at is seventh session.”