Human Rights
Extreme poverty is a violation of Human Rights. Fighting poverty means fighting for Human Rights, which are indivisible.
Moving towards Guiding Principles On Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
The draft guiding principles « Extreme poverty and human rights: The rignts of the poor » is the first international document which sets out clearly the implications of existing international laws in relation to the human rights of that they themselves are the first to act to change their situation and taht of their families.The UN Human Rights Council adopts a resolution on the draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Press release Tuesday 6 October 2009
At the end of its 12th session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (A/HRC/12/L.30/Rev.1).
In this resolution, the Council recognizes that there is “a widespread commitment to advancing the project of elaborating guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights,” and invites the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepulveda, to “submit a progress report presenting her recommendations on how to improve the draft guiding principles … no later than its fifteenth session” (September 2010). The Council will then “take a decision on the way forward with a view to a possible adoption of guiding principles on the rights of persons living in extreme poverty by 2012.”
