The unheard truth
Subtitle: poverty and human rights
By: Irene Khan with David Petrasek.
Contributors: Petrasek, David.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780393337006
Subjects: Poverty; Poor; Human rights
Description: "Despite economic growth in almost every corner of the world over the last decade, billions of people still live in poverty. Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan claims that economic analyses do not provide a full picture and economic solutions alone cannot end the problems of poverty. In an argument enriched with her personal experiences and case studies from around the world, Khan sees poverty as the world's worst human rights crisis because it traps people in a vicious cycle of deprivation, insecurity, exclusion, and voicelessness. She argues that the foremost challenge is the empowerment of poor people, and makes a passionate and urgent plea for action to uphold human rights in the fight to end poverty."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world's worst human rights crisis; title: Freedom and its critics-why 'voice' matters; title: Freedom from discrimination-ending exclusion; title: Living in fear-securing rights; title: Poverty trapped-from the sequence to the circle; title: Needless deaths-the rigth to safe motherhood; title: The global slum-giving people a right to their city; title: The scramble for resources-local rights, global duties; title: Claming rights-legal empowerment to end poverty; title: From acknowledgement to action.