The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights - Softcover

Khan, Irene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393337006 ISBN 13: 9780393337006

Verlag: Norton, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

In our rapidly globalising 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 millions of people their most basic rights. Enriched by compelling photographs from across the world, "The Unheard Truth" argues that poverty remains a global epidemic because we continue to define it as an economic problem whose only solution is foreign aid and investment. Irene Khan calls for a re-evaluation of this long-standing assumption to turn us towards confronting poverty as a human rights violation. Empowering the poor with basic rights of security is our only chance for eradicating poverty and giving freedom and dignity to those who have never experienced it.

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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.

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• Verlag: Norton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393337006
• ISBN 13: 9780393337006
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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