Poverty and Civil and Political Rights
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Description
Development and human rights frameworks often exclusively address the situation of people living in poverty as issues of material deprivation and a lack of resources, focusing solutions on welfare support, specific goods and services, better targeted development assistance, or the promotion of economic and social rights. As a result, neither the diagnosis of situations, nor the resulting policy recommendations, are tailored to address the distinctive ways in which people living in poverty are affected by police brutality, gender-based sexual violence, property theft, pre-trial detention, criminalizing homelessness, or electoral fraud and manipulation. This chapter argues that many civil and political rights violations are rooted in poverty, and that only by addressing that aspect can sustainable and adequate solutions be found. It delineates the disproportionate and different impact of civil and political rights violations on the poor, and the lack of focus on causal and contextual factors leads to the neglect of vital dimensions of the challenge.
Source Publication
Research Handbook on the Politics of Human Rights Law
Source Editors/Authors
Bård A. Andreassen
Publication Date
2023
Recommended Citation
Alston, Philip G., "Poverty and Civil and Political Rights" (2023). Faculty Chapters. 16.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/16
