Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

Edited by Martha F. Davis, University Distinguished Professor, School of Law, Northeastern University, USA, 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, USA

‘Poverty, as Nelson Mandela said, is one of the most devastating assaults on human dignity. This timely and topical Handbook considers poverty as the human rights violation that it is, and explores the solutions offered by human rights law. It does so in a well-conceived structure and brings together insights from all the top researchers in the field. This second edition of the book will undoubtedly become a key reference for many scholars and practitioners like the first edition. A must-read for policy makers, researchers and all others interested in strengthening human dignity across the world.’

• Contents:Opening Note xviiiForeword xxAcknowledgements xxvIntroduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxviMartha F. Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda LyonsPART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2Olivier De Schutter2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 22Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and socialexclusion 39Ayşe Buğra4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 57Gillian MacNaughton5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 74Karolina Miriam Januszewski andManfred Nowak6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 94Hans-Otto SanoPART II CROSS-CURRENTSSECTION A POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND IDENTITY7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing humanrights in the 21st century 113Gerard Quinn and Mary Keogh8 Poverty, older persons and human rights 131Andrew Byrnes9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 149Wouter Vandenhole10 Capping motherhood 167Meghan Campbell11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexualorientation and gender identity and poverty 182Victor Madrigal-Borloz12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of impoverished Roma people in theEuropean Union 204Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu13 Rights, racism and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave noone behind 225Gay McDougallSECTION B POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITHGEOGRAPHY AND PLACE14 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in theEU 244Eleni Karageorgiou15 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the ‘urban turn’ 263Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor16 Local authorities, poverty and the impact of human rights norms 280Moritz Baumgärtel17 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 297Miloon Kothari18 The land-rights poverty nexus 313Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr.19 Indigenous Peoples’ land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for povertyeradication and sustainable development 330Alejandro FuentesPART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES20 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: newbehaviourism, social investment and new universalism 348Volkan Yilmaz21 From home to commodity: the human right to housing in a market-drivenera 365Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan22 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 383Mette Hartlev23 Poverty and abortion rights in international law 399Joanna N. Erdman24 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 416Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas25 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a casestudy 433Sophal Chea26 Fair taxes to end poverty 447Åsa Gunnarsson27 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 463Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS28 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 481Sumudu Atapattu29 Corruption as a human rights violation 501Khulekani Moyo30 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 517Zafer Kizilkaya31 Human rights, technology and poverty 531Hellen Mukiri-Smith and Linnet Taylor32 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entitiesaccountable for poverty alleviation 552Lucy Williams