Nettsider med emneord «Poverty and Development Ongoing»

The objective of the Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (HUREP) project is to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between human rights and poverty.

The objective of the Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (HUREP) project is to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between human rights and poverty.

Based on comparative case studies from the disaster prone Bengal region in South Asia, this study analyses the role, capacity and impact of a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to extreme poverty - and its potential to bridge the gap between long term development efforts and short term emergency relief. In short: Does the HRBA have anything new to offer in emergency aid?

The recent trend to view poverty as a ‘denial’ or ‘violation’ of basic human rights – concepts with both an ethical and a legal edge – offers a new type of grounding for poverty reduction strategies. It is unclear, however, what this actually implies in practice.