Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor?

by Thomas W. Pogge

Book Overview

Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. The nature of human rights and their corresponding duties is examined, as is the theoretical standing of the social, economic and cultural rights. The authors largely agree in concluding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226180
• ISBN13: 9780199226184
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"