Every month, our experienced librarian Lena Olsson handpicks a number of interesting books on current human rights topics. On April 14 we hosted a webinar on Poverty, Human Rights and the SDGs: How to Address the Post-Pandemic Poverty Crisis. Lena gives a few tips on readings on Poverty.
Did you miss it? No worries. Check out the video or listen to the webcast. You will also find the panelists individual speaches (videos)
Again, Lena Olsson went into the Raoul Wallenberg Institute Library. She found a few interesting books on the topic. Among these, we are proud to annonce our newly arrived book; Poverty and Human Rights – A Handbook which is among the ones that Lena suggests below:
Lena: “The books I recommend give the reads of all aspects of poverty. They are trying to explain the causes of poverty, from the heritage of poor families, child labor, or taxation law to the political struggle to reduce world poverty.”
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Edited by Martha Davis, Morten Kjaerum, and Amanda Lyons
‘In the 35 chapters of the book, well-known academics are exploring the relationship between poverty and human rights. All kinds of aspects are shed to light: asylum, immigration, indigenous people, rights to health, labour law.
Law and poverty: The legal system and poverty reduction
Edited by Lucy Williams, Asbjørn Kjønstad and Peter Robson
‘Much of the world is living in abject poverty and many individuals who are not living in poverty do not seem to care’.
This contribution is breaking new ground in the political struggle to reduce world poverty.
Poverty of Rights – Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty
In the chapter ‘The poverty is not destiny’, the author states that poverty is not a fatality nor an accident.
Power, rights, and poverty: concepts and connections
Edited by Ruth Alsop
‘Prepared by leading thinkers on the topics of power and rights these materials offer both development professionals and students of development studies succinct summaries of the relationship between theory and practice’.
World poverty and human rights: Cosmopolitan responsibilities and reforms
Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko
Progge writes: ‘Human rights would be fully realized, if all human beings had secure access to the objects of these rights. Our world is today very far from this ideal. Piecing together the current global record, we find that most of the current massive underfulfillment of human rights is more or less directly connected to poverty. The connection is direct in the case of basic social and economic human rights, such as the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one’s family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care. The connection is more indirect in the case of civil and political human rights associated with democratic government and the rule of law’ .
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