Persistent poverty and inequality in an era of globalisation: opportunities and limitations to a rights approach

Abstract

The present paper sets out to examine ways and means of attacking poverty and global socio-economic inequalities from a human rights perspective. First we shall look at global injustice and current ways of “approaching” it, and then investigate the problem of human rights receptivity. Next, we shall examine human rights as a possible tool in the struggle for global justice while finally focusing on a global reform program.