Research report on poverty, inequality and human rights
The UK based Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has published a research paper on how human rights have been used internationally to shape new conceptions of poverty and new approaches to combating it.
The research comprises a comprehensive review of literature on the connection between human rights and poverty eradication. Human rights and anti-poverty work are rarely integrated. The research highlights the need to analyse how human rights have been and can be used in anti-poverty strategies.
The research report covers:
how human rights have been used to understand poverty;
how communities experiencing poverty use human rights to act against injustice, build alliances between disparate groups, and articulate their conditions and claims;
the tools that communities and their allies use to hold the state accountable for its human rights obligations;
how human rights have been implemented in practice in anti-poverty work by governments and other organisations;
lessons for integrating human rights and anti-poverty work in the UK.
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