The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, recently asserted that there
is a strong link between poverty and the enjoyment of human rights:'The reality of poverty is …

Being poor in the United Kingdom can mean being subjected to discrimination on the
grounds of poverty. Both poverty and discrimination are contrary to the spirit and the terms of …

Abstract When the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was drafted,
governments grasped that human rights are needed as safeguards, not only against …

Beyond Civil Rights, Developing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the United Kingdom
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Executive summary Human rights have been used to shape new conceptions of poverty and
new approaches to tackling it, in both the developed and developing worlds. There is …

SUMMARY A central message of the Labour Party campaign leading up to the June general
election was that the system is rigged in favour of the few. The Party's Manifesto–For the …

The Institute for Public Policy Research is an independent charity whose purpose is to
contribute to public understanding of social, economic and political questions through …

“The last 25 years have seen the most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty the world has
ever experienced. Yet dozens of countries have become poorer. More than a billion people …

The Institute for Public Policy Research is an independent charity whose purpose is to
contribute to public understanding of social, economic and political questions through …

Socio-economic rights relate to an individual's social, economic and cultural entitlements.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966 enumerates the …