Author: Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 074564144X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Thomas Pogge tries to explain how most of the population of this planet can excuse world poverty. A mere one or two % of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty but there's a slim chance of that happening.

Author: Rob Probyn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781793957214
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Most people would agree that the fact there are many desperately poor people in a world in which the means to eradicate poverty are clearly available is truly lamentable. But many of us in rich countries might also think that this situation does not have much to do with us, and that in any case the problem will take care of itself in a few years as poor countries become wealthier. Thomas Pogge is a German philosopher with a particular interest in global justice. He published World Poverty and Human Rights in 2008, seeking to challenge the complacency towards poverty shown by citizens of rich countries. In particular, Pogge proposes that we are - at least in part - actively responsible for global poverty. This book is principally a summary and analysis of the main ideas set out in World Poverty and Human Rights, although it also draws on a number of other sources (including other work of Pogge's). It is set out in the seven parts listed on the contents page, and finishes with a brief conclusion. This book is unofficial, and has not been endorsed by Professor Pogge. Interested readers are very much encouraged to pick up the original book. Summary: World Poverty and Human Rights is the seventh book in the Summary series. Each book in the series summarises an important work or topic in an approachable way, in around fifty pages. 100% of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), which is rated as one of the most effective charities in the world (www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities). SCI works with governments in sub-Saharan Africa to create or scale up programmes that treat schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (neglected tropical diseases that can have an impact on children's long-term development).

Author: Diana T. Meyers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199975876
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new essays that analyze how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights. No other collection of philosophical papers focuses on the diverse ways poverty impacts the agency of the poor, the reasons why poverty alleviation schemes should also promote the agency of beneficiaries, and the fitness of the human rights regime to secure both economic development and free agency. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 considers the diverse meanings of poverty both from the standpoint of the poor and from that of the relatively well-off. Part 2 examines morally appropriate responses to poverty on the part of persons who are better-off and powerful institutions. Part 3 identifies economic development strategies that secure the agency of the beneficiaries. Part 4 addresses the constraints poverty imposes on agency in the context of biomedical research, migration for work, and trafficking in persons.

Author: Thomas W. Pogge
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745641431
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Thomas Pogge tries to explain how most of the population of this planet can excuse world poverty. A mere one or two % of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty but there's a slim chance of that happening.

Author: Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmopolitanism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Thomas Pogge tries to explain the attitude of affluent populations to world poverty. One or two per cent of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty and Pogge presents a powerful moral argument.

Author: Desmond McNeill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134063539
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Severe poverty is one of the greatest moral challenges of our times. But what place, if any, do ethical thinking and questions of global justice have in the policies and practice of international organizations? This books examines this question in depth, based on an analysis of the two major multilateral development organizations - the World Bank and the UNDP - and two specific initiatives where poverty and ethics or human rights have been explicitly in focus: in the Inter-American Development Bank and UNESCO. The current development aid framework may be seen as seeking to make globalization work for the poor; and multilateral organizations such as these are powerful global actors, whether by virtue of their financial resources, or in their role as global norm-setting bodies and as sources of hegemonic knowledge about poverty. Drawing on their backgrounds in political economy, ethics and sociology of knowledge, as well as their inside knowledge of some of the case studies, the authors show how, despite the rhetoric, issues of ethics and human rights have – for very varying reasons and in differing ways – been effectively prevented from impinging on actual practice. Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights will be of interest to researchers and advanced students, as well as practitioners and activists, in the fields of international relations, development studies, and international political economy. It will also be of relevance for political philosophy, human rights, development ethics and applied ethics more generally.

Author: Pogge, Thomas
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231040332
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Presents fifteen essays by academics about the severe poverty that afflicts billions of human lives. These essays seek to explain why freedom from poverty is a human right and what duties this right creates for the affluent.

Author: 錢展成
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Author: Klaus Hoffmann-Holland
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161499920
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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In a globalized world, an interdisciplinary dialogue on ethics and human rights is possible, necessary and fruitful for jurisprudence. Human rights can be understood as formalized ethics, and ethics can thus serve as a foundation for human rights. They are the framework for a communication of rights, and this communication is the context in which wrongs can be transformed into rights. Ethics do however also shape existing (recognized) human rights. Human rights are ethics in action. The enforcement of human rights, especially in international criminal law, as well as the implementation structures bring the ideas and principles of rights to life in a globalized world. Thus it is advisable to take an interdisciplinary approach to participation rights, social rights and human rights in general, in private and in public life.This work contains articles that were presented at an international and interdisciplinary conference on Ethics and Human Rights in a Globalized World in Jerusalem in the fall of 2008. Young researchers from Israel and Germany, who work in the fields of law, philosophy, political science and theology, deal with the foundation of human rights, the conflict between varying human rights and effective implementation structures. The part played by the World Bank in implementing human rights is highlighted, as is the significance of local cultural backgrounds. Other articles deal with the correlation of international criminal law and human rights. The book also contains an article by Aharon Barak, former Chief Justice of the Israel Supreme Court.

Author: Willem van Genugten
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856499781
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This is an innovative collection that brings together two issues that are not always related: measures to reduce poverty, and respect in practice for human rights. Most of the contributors are from Latin America--a region characterized by terrible human rights violations, and the co-existence of relative wealth alongside immense absolute inequality. Law, they argue, is no panacea for the intractable problem of poverty. Instead it can be an indispensable basis for social mobilization, which, in turn can be strengthened by socially engaged and critical social science. Paying particular attention to indigenous peoples, the contributors explore their struggles against poverty, and the relatively new notion of the right to development.