Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Project

Using a multidimensional approach to poverty, the incidence of extreme poverty around the world is staggering. According to the UN Development Program’s 2014 Human Development Report, more than 15 percent of the world’s population (2.2 billion people) are living near or in multidimensional poverty. For those living in extreme poverty, many human rights are out of reach, making the elimination of extreme poverty not a question of charity, but an urgent human rights concern.

The Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Project housed the Center’s work that relates to extreme poverty and human rights. From 2014-2020, the Project center around CHRGJ Faculty Director and Chair Professor Philip Alston’s mandate as the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

The Project seeks to explore the interconnection between extreme poverty and human rights through creating a platform for the mandate’s extensive activities and by generating related programming and research through contributions by Center staff, students, and other faculty on specific country or thematic topics.

Further CHRGJ work that falls within the Project and explores the interrelation between poverty and inequality is the Initiative on Inequality, the Global Economy, and Human Rights, launched in 2015 to critically examine the role of international human rights law in regulating the global economy and in countering its tendency to exacerbate inequalities.

Related Work

UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
American Poverty and Human Rights
Initiative on Inequality, the Global Economy, and Human Rights
RSVP
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