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World poverty and human rights severe poverty , with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement.The annual death toll from poverty -related causes is around 18 million, or one-third of all human ...

Lifting the poverty curtain: Guiding a path to a world without poverty : "The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has just published a consultation to seek views on the Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. Yet another set of guidelines? ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Why neocons really hate Trump: He's hastening the decline of American empire - Last December the UN issued a report on poverty and inequality in America , and the report's author, Philip Alston, documented levels of poverty that he had never seen before in the developed world. “Washington is very keen for me to point out the poverty and human rights failings in ...

The world sees America's poverty. Why can't we? - A recent report re-affirms that America is struggling with poverty and income inequality . Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, released a statement in December. The United Nations appointed Alston, a volunteer without ties to any government or ...

Rural Alabama Poverty 'Uncommon in the First World' - Alston, U.N, special rapporteur from Australia, and his team are gathering information for a report on poverty and human rights abuses in America that they expect to release next spring, AL.com said. After visiting one home in Butler County where the electrical service was "unreliable" and the septic tank ...

UN Official Shocked By Toxic Conditions in US Black Belt: 'Worst Poverty ' in First World - The tour by Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has cast a light on an issue known well to poverty -blighted communities and oppressed nationalities in the U.S. : inequitable local policies that safeguard environmental racism by literally concentrating toxic ...

In Honduras, poverty and gangs help drive migration - The World Bank says Honduras has "the highest levels of economic inequality " in Latin America . The Inter- American Commission on Human Rights ...

The UN sent an envoy to investigate extreme poverty in the United States - There is a poor country hiding inside the world's richest nation. So thinks the United Nations (UN), which has sent an envoy led by New York University law and human rights professor Philip Alston, to investigate extreme poverty across the US . In a country that creates more money than any other, ...