Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Second Edition
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 21. July 2026
Book
Hardback
634 pages
978-1-0353-5050-6 (ISBN)
Description
This thoroughly revised second edition of the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty builds on the significant contribution of the first edition to the understanding of global poverty, addressing new developments in the nexus of human rights, poverty and inequality. Leading experts from various disciplines draw on influential scholarship and practical experience to outline a future research agenda for addressing poverty and inequality.
Authors interrogate the definition of poverty and examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, geography and migration status. Chapters explore the rights to housing, health, work, education, protest and access to justice, highlighting the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies. This second edition provides new research, expands on previous material and raises probing questions about how the status quo of poverty and human rights is defined and perpetuated.
This Research Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and students of law and development, comparative law and human rights looking for future research avenues. It is also beneficial for legal practitioners working to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.
Authors interrogate the definition of poverty and examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, geography and migration status. Chapters explore the rights to housing, health, work, education, protest and access to justice, highlighting the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies. This second edition provides new research, expands on previous material and raises probing questions about how the status quo of poverty and human rights is defined and perpetuated.
This Research Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and students of law and development, comparative law and human rights looking for future research avenues. It is also beneficial for legal practitioners working to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.
Reviews / Votes
'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.' -- Barbara Oomen, Utrecht University School of Law, the NetherlandsMore details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0353-5050-6 (9781035350506)
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Martha F. Davis | Morten Kjaerum | Amanda Lyons
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty
Book
03/2021
Edward Elgar Publishing
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Persons
Edited by Martha F. Davis, University Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University School of Law, 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
Content
Contents:
Opening Note xviii
Foreword xx
Acknowledgements xxv
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxvi
Martha F. Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda Lyons
PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS
1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2
Olivier De Schutter
2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 22
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona
3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social
exclusion 39
Ayse Bugra
4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 57
Gillian MacNaughton
5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 74
Karolina Miriam Januszewski andManfred Nowak
6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 94
Hans-Otto Sano
PART II CROSS-CURRENTS
SECTION A POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND IDENTITY
7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human
rights in the 21st century 113
Gerard Quinn and Mary Keogh
8 Poverty, older persons and human rights 131
Andrew Byrnes
9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 149
Wouter Vandenhole
10 Capping motherhood 167
Meghan Campbell
11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity and poverty 182
Victor Madrigal-Borloz
12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of impoverished Roma people in the
European Union 204
Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu
13 Rights, racism and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no
one behind 225
Gay McDougall
SECTION B POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITH
GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE
14 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the
EU 244
Eleni Karageorgiou
15 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the 'urban turn' 263
Natalia Angel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor
16 Local authorities, poverty and the impact of human rights norms 280
Moritz Baumgaertel
17 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 297
Miloon Kothari
18 The land-rights poverty nexus 313
Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr.
19 Indigenous Peoples' land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty
eradication and sustainable development 330
Alejandro Fuentes
PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES
20 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new
behaviourism, social investment and new universalism 348
Volkan Yilmaz
21 From home to commodity: the human right to housing in a market-driven
era 365
Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan
22 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 383
Mette Hartlev
23 Poverty and abortion rights in international law 399
Joanna N. Erdman
24 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 416
Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas
25 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case
study 433
Sophal Chea
26 Fair taxes to end poverty 447
Asa Gunnarsson
27 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 463
Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas
PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
28 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 481
Sumudu Atapattu
29 Corruption as a human rights violation 501
Khulekani Moyo
30 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 517
Zafer Kizilkaya
31 Human rights, technology and poverty 531
Hellen Mukiri-Smith and Linnet Taylor
32 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities
accountable for poverty alleviation 552
Lucy Williams
Opening Note xviii
Foreword xx
Acknowledgements xxv
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxvi
Martha F. Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda Lyons
PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS
1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2
Olivier De Schutter
2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 22
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona
3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social
exclusion 39
Ayse Bugra
4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 57
Gillian MacNaughton
5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 74
Karolina Miriam Januszewski andManfred Nowak
6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 94
Hans-Otto Sano
PART II CROSS-CURRENTS
SECTION A POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND IDENTITY
7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human
rights in the 21st century 113
Gerard Quinn and Mary Keogh
8 Poverty, older persons and human rights 131
Andrew Byrnes
9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 149
Wouter Vandenhole
10 Capping motherhood 167
Meghan Campbell
11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual
orientation and gender identity and poverty 182
Victor Madrigal-Borloz
12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of impoverished Roma people in the
European Union 204
Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu
13 Rights, racism and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no
one behind 225
Gay McDougall
SECTION B POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITH
GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE
14 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the
EU 244
Eleni Karageorgiou
15 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the 'urban turn' 263
Natalia Angel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor
16 Local authorities, poverty and the impact of human rights norms 280
Moritz Baumgaertel
17 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 297
Miloon Kothari
18 The land-rights poverty nexus 313
Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr.
19 Indigenous Peoples' land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty
eradication and sustainable development 330
Alejandro Fuentes
PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES
20 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new
behaviourism, social investment and new universalism 348
Volkan Yilmaz
21 From home to commodity: the human right to housing in a market-driven
era 365
Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan
22 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 383
Mette Hartlev
23 Poverty and abortion rights in international law 399
Joanna N. Erdman
24 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 416
Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas
25 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case
study 433
Sophal Chea
26 Fair taxes to end poverty 447
Asa Gunnarsson
27 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 463
Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas
PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
28 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 481
Sumudu Atapattu
29 Corruption as a human rights violation 501
Khulekani Moyo
30 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 517
Zafer Kizilkaya
31 Human rights, technology and poverty 531
Hellen Mukiri-Smith and Linnet Taylor
32 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities
accountable for poverty alleviation 552
Lucy Williams