Poverty, inequality and human rights
This report considers how other countries have used human rights to tackle poverty and how this could be applied in the UK. In particular, the report covers: ? how human rights have been used to understand poverty; ? how communities experiencing poverty use human rights to act against injustice, build alliances between disparate groups, and articulate their conditions and claims; ? the tools that communities and their allies use to hold the state accountable for its human rights obligations; ? how human rights have been implemented in practice in anti-poverty work by governments and other organisations; and ? lessons for integrating human rights and anti-poverty work in the UK. The research comprised: ? a comprehensive review of literature on the connection between human rights and poverty eradication; ? 28 interviews with people active in using human rights in anti-poverty work in their country or at an international level; ? four seminars in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff involving 77 people active in anti-poverty and/or human rights work.
