| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-241) and index. |
| Contents |
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 trapped -- 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. |
| Summary |
A secretary general of Amnesty International presents arguments on how poverty is a global human-rights violation that has been ineffectively addressed as an economic problem, in a report that calls for the poor to be empowered with basic security rights, freedom, and dignity. |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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Poor.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people.
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| Subject |
Poverty.
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| Added Author |
Petrasek, David.
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Annan, Kofi.
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Amnesty International.
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| ISBN |
9780393337006 paperback |
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0393337006 paperback |
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