Unheard Truth Poverty and Human Rights

Name: Unheard Truth Poverty and Human Rights
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ISBN: 9780393337006

ISBN-10: 0393337006

ISBN-13: 9780393337006

Edition: 2009

Authors: Irene Khan, Khan

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A powerful argument by the secretary general of Amnesty International that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation. In our rapidly globalizing age with economic growth occurring in almost every corner of the world, it is easy to forget that more than one billion people still live on less than one dollar a day. Poverty is the worst human-rights crisis in the world today, denying billions of people their most basic rights. In a bracing argument enriched by compelling photographs from across the world, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan makes the case that poverty remains a global epidemic because we continue to define it as an economic…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Irene Khan, as the first woman and first Asian secretary general of Amnesty International, has brought a strong focus to socioeconomic rights and violence against women around the world. She lives with her husband and daughter in London.



Foreword



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations



The World's worst Human Rights Crisis



Freedom and Its Critics-Why 'Voice' Matters



Freedom From Discrimination-Ending Exclusion



Living In Fear-Securing Rights



Poverty Trapprd



Needless Deaths-The Right to Safe MotherHood



The Global Slum-Winning the Right to the City



Commodities Boom, Rights Bust



Claiming Rights-Legal Empowerment to End Poverty



From Acknowledgement to Action-A Campaign for the Rights of poor People


Endnotes


Index