Poverty and Human Rights Violations
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poverty, economic and social human rights, distributive justice, social autonomy, political philosophy
Abstract
The paper justifies considering poverty as a violation of human rights at an individual, but more concretely at a collective level. To achieve this, it discusses some proposals of contemporary political philosophy that have occupied themselves with this problem: the «funcionalist», the «extended liberty» and the «social autonomy» justifications. The latter, claims the author, comprehends better the requirements of a political justification, for it clarifies the role of bearers of duties and rights, and the expediency of claims and responsibilities in relation to poverty at an international level.
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Craven, M. (1995) The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on its Development. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Dankwa, V.; Flinterman, C. and Leckie, S. (1998) “Commentary to the Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”. In: Human Rights Quarterly 20, pp. 691-730.
Eide, A. (1995) “Economic, social and cultural rights as human rights”. In: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. A Textbook, Eide, A.; Krause, C. and Rosas, A., ed., Kluwer, Dordrecht/Boston/London, pp. 21-40.
FIAN (1998) Food First. Mit Menschenrechten gegen Hunger. Bonn, www.fian.org.
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Krasner, St. (1999) Sovereignty - Organized Hypocrisy. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Kreide, R. (2002) “International justice in John Rawls ́s theory”. In: German Law Journal3 (11); www.germanlawjournal.com.
Künnemann, R. (2000) “Neuere Entwicklung beim Recht auf Nahrung”. In: Jahrbuch Menschenrechte. von Arnim, G. and Deile, V. et al., ed., Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, pp.285-298.
Langhammer, R. J. (2002) “Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded in the optimism of the World Bank?”. Kiel Working Paper Nº 1116. Kiel Institute for World Economics, Kiel. http://www.uni-kiel.de/ifw/homeeng.htm
Marshall, Th. (1992) Citizenship and Social Class. Pluto Perspectives, London.
O’Neill, O. (2001) “Agents of justice”. In: Global Justice, Pogge, Th., ed., Blackwell,Oxford.
Paech, N. and Stuby, G. (2001) Völkerrecht und Machtpolitik in den internationalen Beziehungen. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg.
Perraton, J.; Goldblatt, D.; Held, D. and McGrew, A. (1998) “Die Globalisierung derWirtschaft”. In: Politik der Globalisierung, Beck, U., ed., Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, pp.134-169.
Pogge, Th. (1994) “An egalitarian law of peoples”. In: Philosophy & Public Affairs 23, pp.195-224.
Pogge, Th. (2001) “Priorities of global justice”. In: Global Justice, Pogge, Th., ed.,Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 6-24.
Pogge, Th. (2004) “The Incoherence between Rawls’s Theories of Justice”. In: FordhamLaw Review, pp. 246-253.
Pogge, Th. (2002) World Poverty and Human Rights. Polity Press, Oxford.
Rawls, J. (1999) The Law of Peoples. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., London.[El derecho de gentes y una idea de razón pública, Barcelona, Paidós, 2001].
Roemer, J. (2000) Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, Cambridge/Mass.,London.
Sen, A. (1993) Unequality Reexamined. Oxford University Press, Oxford, York, Cambridge/Mass. [Nuevo examen de la desigualdad, Madrid, Alianza, 1999].
Shue, H. (1980) Basic Rights. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NY.
Shue, H. (1988) “Mediating duties”. In: Ethics 98, pp. 687-704.
Steiner, Hillel (1974-75) “Individual Liberty”. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75,pp. 33-50.
Steiner, H. and Alston, Ph. (1993) International Human Rights in Context. Law, Politics,Morals. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
Stiglitz, J. (2002) Globalization and Its Discontents. Pinguin Books, New York.
Tetzlaff, R. (1996) Weltbank und Währungsfonds – Gestalter der Bretton-Woods-Ära. Leske& Budrich, Opladen.
Tugendhat, E. (1992) Philosophische Aufsätze. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main.
Tugendhat, E. (1993) Vorlesungen zur Ethik. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main. [Lecciones deética, Barcelona, Gedisa, 1997].
Tugendhat, E. (1993a) “Die Kontroverse um die Menschenrechte”. In: Analyse & Kritik 15,pp. 101-110.
The Economist (2004) A Question of Justice? (March 13th – 19th, 2004) www.economist.com.
The Limburg Principles on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1987) Human Rights Quarterly 9, pp. 122-134.
The Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1998) Human Rights Quarterly 20, pp. 691-730.
Van Parijs, Ph. (1995) Real Freedom for All. What (if anything) can Justify Capitalism?.Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Weissbrodt, D. (2000) Principles relating to the human rights conduct of Companies. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2000/WG.2/WP.1 (25 May 2000) http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/4c9f4b9319945428c125691b00438fdf/$FILE/G0013862.doc
Wenar, L. (2004) Human rights and responsibility, in this volume.World Bank (2000) Country Reports on Health, Nutrition, Population, and Poverty.Washington D.C., www.worldbank.org/poverty/health/data/ (22.02.2003).
Wenar, L. (2001) Global Poverty Monitoring, www.worldbank.org/research/povmonitor/(22.02.2003)
Zürn, M. (1998) Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main.
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Kreide, R. (2005). Poverty and Human Rights Violations. Co-Herencia, 2(3), 9–42. Retrieved from https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co-herencia/article/view/590
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