Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (Research Handbooks in Human Rights series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788977505 ISBN 13: 9781788977500

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

This important Research Handbook explores the nexus between human rights, poverty and inequality as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key challenges of the coming decades, including the objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Research Handbook starts from the premise that poverty is not solely an issue of minimum income and explores the profound ways that deprivation and distributive inequality of power and capability relate to economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.

Leading experts in the human rights field representing a range of disciplines outline a future research agenda to address poverty and inequality head on. Beginning with an interrogation of the definition of poverty, subsequent chapters analyse the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, geography and migration status. The rights to housing, land, health, work, education, protest and access to justice are also explored, with a recognition of the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies.

The Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty is an essential reference guide for those who teach in these areas and for scholars and students developing future research agendas of their own. This will also be a much-needed resource for people working practically to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.

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About the Author

Edited by Martha F. Davis, University Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University, School of Law, US, Morten Kjaerum, Adjunct Professor, University of Aalborg, Denmark and Affiliated Scholar, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden and Amanda Lyons, Executive Director and Lecturer in Law, Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota Law School, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788977505
• ISBN 13: 9781788977500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Davis Martha F., Kjaerum Morten, Lyons Amanda