ECH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Extreme Poverty, Voicelessness
21 Jun 2018
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Module 9: Poverty and Human Rights
Why is poverty a human rights issue?
-UN HRC has not met in emergency session for “extreme poverty”
-Many don’t identify poverty as a human rights issue
-Poverty is about deprivation: food, water, clothing, shelter, sanitation, employment,
income
-More than deprivation: insecurity
-Two types: threats to their lives; threats to livelihoods
-Poor suffer disproportionately in terms of violence (criminal, domestic) – most at risk
-Livelihoods: they go to bed hungry; work in debt bondage; lack protection of social
security… insecure nature of livelihood keeps them poor
-Extreme poverty = exclusion = treated unfairly by government, police, courts, municipal
agencies
-Discrimination, especially against the poor…
-Sleeping on the streets but no affordable housing available?
-Extreme poverty = voicelessness = example is right to vote
-Summarized
1. Deprivation (ICESR)
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