Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes what to the Very Poor?

Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes what to the Very Poor?
ISBN-10
0199226318
ISBN-13
9780199226313
Series
Freedom from poverty as a human right
Category
Political Science
Pages
406
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge

Description

Collected here are fifteen essays about the severe poverty that today afflicts billions of human lives. The essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent. This volume derives from a UNESCO philosophy program organized in response to the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000: 'to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger'.--Publisher's description.

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